Staff Software Engineer - AI-Powered Cloud Platform

GitHub, Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 372,000; Full time

Job summary

GitHub, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to provide technical leadership for our cloud infrastructure powering autonomous agents. You will define the technical direction, lead architecture, and ensure secure, scalable, and reliable systems across multiple GitHub services.

You will collaborate with senior engineers, mentor teams, and guide architectural decisions while maintaining operational health and cost efficiency as adoption grows. Open to remote candidates within the United States.

Qualifications

• 9+ years of software engineering with production systems.
• Experience operating distributed backend systems and API design.
• Experience shipping AI/ML-powered features in production.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for cloud infrastructure powering GitHub's autonomous agents.
• Define technical direction and lead architecture evolution across services.
• Architect APIs for seamless component integration.
• Ensure security, reliability, observability, and cost efficiency.

Skills

Distributed systems

API design

Data modeling

Production ownership

AI/ML features

Go in production

OpenAPI/Swagger

Kubernetes

Terraform

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Master's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Doctorate in CS or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Azure CosmosDB or equivalent

Job description

GitHub, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to provide technical leadership for our cloud infrastructure powering autonomous agents. You will define the technical direction, lead architecture, and ensure secure, scalable, and reliable systems across multiple GitHub services.

You will collaborate with senior engineers, mentor teams, and guide architectural decisions while maintaining operational health and cost efficiency as adoption grows. Open to remote candidates within the United States.