Staff Software Engineer, AI Code Review (Remote)

Github; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 372,000; Full time

Job summary

GitHub is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to tackle open-ended problems in AI-powered code review and ship the answer end to end. You will shape how reviews use context, memory, and learning across VS Code, the Copilot app, and the Copilot CLI.

Lead by building, not by writing plans, with an on-call rotation and a fast-growing team that values clarity, ownership, and impact. You will set technical direction, write scalable code, and mentor others to deliver high-quality software at scale.

Qualifications

• 9+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience delivering production software in multiple languages.

Responsibilities

• Own product problems that arrive without an answer and ship the answer end to end.
• Advance how the agent reviews: the context it uses, what it remembers, and how it improves over time.
• Decide what a good review looks like for a class of code, then build the evals that hold the product to it.
• Make the quality, latency, and cost tradeoffs that decide how deep a review goes.
• Improve review quality in aggregate and quantify the gain across pull requests.
• Shape the end-to-end review experience across VS Code, the Copilot app, and the Copilot CLI, and pull requests.
• Keep a high-throughput service healthy at GitHub scale, including on-call rotation.
• Work at the frontier of how software gets built with agents and evolve workflows.

Skills

Software engineering

C/C++

Java

Python

Go

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Tools

Git

VS Code

CI/CD

Job description

GitHub is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to tackle open-ended problems in AI-powered code review and ship the answer end to end. You will shape how reviews use context, memory, and learning across VS Code, the Copilot app, and the Copilot CLI.

Lead by building, not by writing plans, with an on-call rotation and a fast-growing team that values clarity, ownership, and impact. You will set technical direction, write scalable code, and mentor others to deliver high-quality software at scale.