Senior Partner Engineer GitHub

Coding Black Females Ltd.; Remote; USD 103,000 - 274,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading software development platform is seeking a Senior Partner Engineer to elevate its partner ecosystem. The ideal candidate will have extensive business development experience, technical consulting background, and knowledge in APIs and generative AI. Responsibilities include synthesizing insights, managing integrations, and collaborating across teams to drive product direction. This role is remote within the United States and offers a competitive salary range from $103,200 to $273,700, reflective of experience and location.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Annual bonuses

Stock options

Qualifications

• 7+ years experience in business development or partner management.
• Experience with APIs, SDKs, and generative AI.
• Proven technical consultative selling skills.

Responsibilities

• Synthesize partner and customer insights to identify ecosystem opportunities.
• Design and maintain high-quality reference integrations and prototypes.
• Act as a technical voice for partners inside GitHub.

Skills

Business development

Technical consulting

APIs and SDKs

Generative AI practices

Software engineering

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, Business or related field

Job description

About GitHub

GitHub is the world’s leading platform for agentic software development — powered by Copilot to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 180 million developers, including more than 90% of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to collaborate, and more than 77,000 organisations have adopted GitHub Copilot.

Locations

Remote, United States

Overview

GitHub is growing its Product Partnerships team and is seeking a Senior Partner Engineer to elevate our partner ecosystem and product integration efforts. As a Senior Partner Engineer, you will work hands‑on with strategic partners, customers and internal teams to build and enable deep integrations across the developer ecosystem, including GitHub Copilot, MCP, GitHub Copilot SDK, and the Copilot CLI. You will understand and integrate partner business needs, user requirements, and industry insights to support scalable partner integrations and influence GitHub’s product roadmap by translating partner requirements into platform‑level opportunities.

You will operate at the intersection of software engineering, product strategy, and partner collaboration, acting as a technical force multiplier—building reference implementations, influencing product direction, and helping partners ship production‑grade integrations that developers love. The ideal candidate is highly autonomous, drives execution, is a confident problem‑solver, shapes integrated solutions, and brings partner and customer insights back into GitHub’s product and partnership strategies to enable long‑term ecosystem success. At the Senior level, Partner Engineers operate independently to create momentum across multiple partners, influence external integrations as well as internal product direction, and drive new ecosystem investments that unlock partner innovation and deliver immediate impact for developers and the business.

Responsibilities

• Customer and Industry Insights: Synthesize partner, customer, and industry insights to identify high‑leverage ecosystem opportunities. Advise both partners and internal GitHub teams on where integrations deliver differentiated developer value, and where product or platform gaps exist.

• Reference Solutions & Prototyping: Design, build, and maintain high‑quality reference integrations, sample apps, CLIs, SDK extensions, workflows, and architectures demonstrating best practices for scale, security, and developer experience. Architect, build, and demonstrate technical proofs of concept (POCs) and points of view (POVs) with partners, instrumenting success criteria, performance, and security baselines, leveraging modern AI tooling and proficiency in languages like Go, Ruby, or TypeScript.

• Deep Technical & AI Enablement: Create and deliver enablement—including documentation, workshops, and hands‑on labs for partner SEs, CEs, and field engineers. Fluency in agentic development patterns and guidance on integrations with GitHub Copilot and AI workflows (context sourcing, prompts/policies, telemetry, guardrails, and evaluation).

• Trusted Advisor & Technology Strategy: Act as the technical voice of partners inside GitHub; surface integration friction, API constraints, and ecosystem opportunities. Collaborate with Product and Engineering to shape platform capabilities, prioritization, and developer experience improvements.

• Integration Lifecycle: Own the end‑to‑end integration lifecycle with partners from design and prototype through hardening, security review, production rollout, and ongoing reliability/observability, ensuring integrations meet GitHub‑quality bars and scale with developer demand.

• Product Voice & Influence: Provide feedback as the technical voice of the partner, escalate pressing issues, and influence roadmaps for GitHub and engineering teams.

• Sales & Launch Collaboration: Collaborate across teams to unblock technical issues in deals, validate joint value propositions, and support launches (blogs, webinars, talks, demos). Represent GitHub in partner launches, public demos, webinars, blog posts, and conference talks where appropriate.

• Operational Excellence: Define and help implement integration acceptance criteria (performance, security, reliability) and support readiness for partner integrations; define and track success with the Product team.

• Champion a culture of innovation, clarity, and empathy for developers.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years experience in business development, partner management, strategy development, corporate development, go‑to‑market, partner marketing, or related experience
• OR Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, Business or related field AND 5+ years experience in the same areas
• OR Master’s Degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, Business or related field AND 3+ years experience in the same areas
• OR Doctorate in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, Business or related field AND 1+ year experience in the same areas
• OR equivalent experience.

• 7+ years experience in technical consulting, technical consultative selling, software engineering, or related technical/sales/industry experience.

• Experience with APIs, SDKs, developer platforms, and generative AI practices, large language models (LLMs), or prompt engineering.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 9+ years experience in business development, partner management, strategy development, corporate development, go‑to‑market, partner marketing, or related experience.
• OR Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, Business or related field AND 7+ years experience in the same areas
• OR Master’s Degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, Business or related field AND 5+ years experience in the same areas
• OR Doctorate in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, Business or related field AND 3+ years experience in the same areas
• OR equivalent experience.
• 3+ years experience with APIs, SDKs, developer platforms, and generative AI practices, large language models (LLMs), or prompt engineering.
• Experience working directly with external partners or customers on complex technical implementations, operating with high autonomy and ownership.
• Experience owning the end‑to‑end integration lifecycle with partners—from design and prototype through hardening, security review, production rollout, and ongoing reliability/observability—ensuring integrations meet GitHub quality bars and scale with developer demand.

Compensation

Compensation Range: The base salary range for this job is USD $103,200.00 – USD $273,700.00 /Yr. These pay ranges are intended to cover roles based across the United States. An individual’s base pay depends on various factors including geographical location and review of experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant. At GitHub, certain roles are eligible for benefits and additional rewards, including annual bonus and stock. These rewards are allocated based on individual impact in role. Some roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on terms of the plan and the employee’s role.

GitHub values

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

Manager fundamentals

• Model
• Coach
• Care

Leadership principles

• Create clarity
• Generate energy
• Deliver success

Who We Are

GitHub is the world’s leading AI‑powered developer platform with 150 million developers and counting. We’re also home to the biggest open‑source community on earth. Our teams are dreamers, doers, and pioneers, leading the way in AI and innovation. We’re remote‑first and offer competitive pay, generous learning and growth opportunities, and excellent benefits to support you, wherever you are.

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

EEO Statement

GitHub is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We embrace diversity and invite applications from people of all walks of life. We don’t discriminate based on gender identity, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences. If you have a disability, please let us know how we can make the interview process better for you; we’re happy to accommodate!