Senior Software Engineer, Copilot Code Review

GitHub, Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 198,000 - 329,000; Full time

Job summary

GitHub is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to own end-to-end features for the Copilot code reviewer. You’ll tackle problems without a handdrawn spec, measure results, and ship improvements that scale across GitHub's AI-powered development platform.

You’ll drive the review experience on VS Code, Copilot apps, and CLI, optimize for latency/cost, and participate in on-call rotations. Remote-friendly role with strong compensation and career growth.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering experience with production software delivery.
• Proficiency in multiple languages listed in the posting.
• Ability to work on on-call rotations and measure impact with evals.

Responsibilities

• Improve the agent review process: context, memory, and PR handling as it evolves.
• Integrate frontier models, balance quality with latency and cost.
• Demonstrate changes with offline/online evals and refine evals.
• Develop end-to-end review UX across VS Code, Copilot app and CLI.
• Reduce false positives and shrink noisy developer comments.
• Maintain a high-throughput service on GitHub scale with on-call coverage.
• Pioneer frontier of agent-powered software and optimize workflows.

Skills

Software engineering

Programming languages (C, C++, C#,Java

Go

Distributed systems

On-call / production software

Education

Bachelor's Degree in CS/Engineering

Master's Degree in CS/Engineering

Doctorate in CS/Engineering

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

In this role you can work from Remote, United States

Overview

AI writes code faster than teams can review it, and review is now the bottleneck. Getting an agent to review as well as, or better than, a great engineer who knows your codebase is one of the most important unsolved problems in AI-assisted development.

Copilot code review is GitHub's answer, and more developers get reviews from it than from any other AI reviewer, increasingly on code that agents wrote. Getting review right is hard to define and harder to measure, and no single number settles whether reviews got better. We think the AI products that win are the ones with the best evals, and we're building the best, offline and online.

We run at GitHub scale with an on-call rotation, and we're a fast-growing team competing to build the best AI code reviewer in the world.

As a Senior Software Engineer here, you'll own features end to end, from agent behavior to what a developer sees. You won't be handed a spec. You'll be handed a problem, and the room to figure out the answer, measure it, and ship it.

Responsibilities

• Improve how the agent reviews: the context it uses, what it remembers, and how it handles a pull request as it changes over time.
• Integrate frontier models and weigh review quality against latency and cost.
• Prove changes with offline and online evals and help sharpen the evals themselves.
• Work on the end-to-end review experience developers use in VS Code, the GitHub Copilot app, and the GitHub Copilot CLI, and on pull requests.
• Drive down false positives and the comments developers scroll past.
• Keep a high-throughput service healthy at GitHub scale, including an on-call rotation.
• Work at the frontier of how software gets built with agents and evolve workflows that make the whole team faster.

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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Hands-on experience pushing coding agents to their limits, with a view on where they help and where they don't.
• Experience improving a nondeterministic, model-driven system and quantifying the gain in aggregate.
• Fundamentals in Go, Ruby, TypeScript, or Python, with the distributed systems and operational experience to keep a service healthy under load.
• Experience building an LLM-backed or agentic product in production, or the evals behind one.

Compensation Range

The base salary range for this job is USD $124,000.00 - USD $329,200.00 /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. 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.

This position will be open for a minimum of 3 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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 (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.

Our teams are dreamers, doers, and pioneers, leading the way in AI, driving humanitarian efforts around the globe, and even sending open source to Mars (and beyond!). 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.

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 against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences. 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!