Senior Software Engineer, Copilot Workspace

With all the collaborative features of GitHub, it has never been easier for individuals and teams to write faster, better code.

Locations: In this role you can work from Remote, United States

Overview:

In this role you will design, prototype, implement, ship and support highly performant and inspiring user experiences with your team.

Great products reflect the teams that build them.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop and ship high-quality technical solutions that scale across multiple GitHub services.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement innovative solutions.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, pairing opportunities, and code reviews to encourage the growth of others.
• Write architecture briefs and proposals, carry out code experiments, and build prototypes to learn how we can achieve planetary scale with our systems.
• Design and implement APIs to facilitate seamless integration between software components.
• Utilize CI/CD tools to set up automated pipelines for continuous integration and delivery.
• Become intimately familiar with the systems you build and take pride in writing maintainable code.

Qualifications:

Required Qualifications:

• 6+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python
• OR Associate’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python
• OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 2+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python.
• OR Doctorate in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• OR equivalent experience.
• Experience in working with Large Language Models (LLMs) for tasks such as code generation, natural language understanding, or building AI-driven development tools. Familiarity with fine-tuning, prompt engineering, and integrating LLMs into engineering workflows.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with frontend development using React, along with a solid understanding of Ruby for building web applications. Ability to design and implement responsive, user-friendly interfaces and integrate them with backend services.
• Experience in cloud-native development, including designing, building, and deploying scalable applications using microservices architecture, containers (e.g., Docker), and orchestration tools like Kubernetes. Proficiency in leveraging cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, or GCP) for optimizing application performance and scalability.
• Proficiency in Git and GitHub for version control and collaborative development and branching strategies.
• Experience with CI/CD Tools: Strong knowledge of CI/CD concepts and best practices. Experience with GitHub actions and workflows platform, familiar with other tools like Jenkins

Compensation Range: The base salary range for this job is USD $112,800.00 - USD $299,300.00 /Yr.

These rewards are allocated based on individual impact in role. In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee's role.

GitHub Leadership Principles:

• Customer-obsessed
• Ship to learn
• Growth mindset
• Own the outcome
• Better together
• Diverse and inclusive

• Model
• Coach
• Care

• Create clarity
• Generate energy
• Deliver success

GitHub is the world’s leading AI-powered developer platform with 100 million developers and counting. We’re also home to the biggest open-source community on earth (and 99% of the world’s software has open-source code in its DNA). Many of the apps and programs you use every day are built on GitHub.

At GitHub, our goal is to create the space you need to do your best work. We’re remote-first and offer competitive pay, generous learning and growth opportunities, and excellent benefits to support you, wherever you are—because we know that people flourish when they can work on their own terms.

Join us, and let’s change the world, together.

Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you; we're happy to accommodate!