Senior Code Search Engineer - Remote, CI/CD & Reliability

Github

United States

Remote

USD 124,000 - 329,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

GitHub is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to advance Blackbird, focusing on infrastructure, automation, and security. You will design, ship, and support scalable code search technologies across Copilot products, collaborating with a distributed team of engineers and partners.

The ideal candidate has strong distributed systems experience, cloud infrastructure expertise, and the ability to work autonomously while guiding technical direction. Remote-first with competitive pay and benefits.

Qualifications

  • 6+ years experience in Software Engineering with production software delivery in multiple languages.
  • Education paths include degrees or equivalent experience as listed in qualifications.
  • Preferred background includes systems programming and information retrieval.

Responsibilities

  • Own and ensure health and quality of systems, including on-call rotations.
  • Analyze data on system health, bugs, and performance metrics.
  • Drive product refinement through data analytics and informed decisions.
  • Automate production and deployment processes for reliability.
  • Write architecture briefs, prototypes, and API designs for scalable systems.
  • Develop and ship high-quality solutions across GitHub services.

Skills

C/C++/Go/Python
Distributed systems
Cloud infrastructure
DevOps/CI-CD
Security/compliance

Education

Associate’s Degree in CS/related
Bachelor’s Degree in CS/related
Master’s Degree in CS/related
Doctorate in CS/related

Job description

GitHub is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to advance Blackbird, focusing on infrastructure, automation, and security. You will design, ship, and support scalable code search technologies across Copilot products, collaborating with a distributed team of engineers and partners.

The ideal candidate has strong distributed systems experience, cloud infrastructure expertise, and the ability to work autonomously while guiding technical direction. Remote-first with competitive pay and benefits.

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