Staff Software Engineer, Code Search

GitHub; United States; Teletrabalho; USD 140 000 - 372 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

GitHub is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for its Blackbird code search engine. You will help develop, scale, operate and extend search capabilities, integrating with AI Agents and new developer workflows. This role sits in the Copilot Agents organization and impacts millions of developers globally.

We value creative problem solvers, strong ownership, and collaboration. You will lead architecture, mentoring, and ensure maintainable, scalable systems across GitHub services.

Qualificações

• 9+ years experience in Software Engineering or related field with production software coding in multiple languages (C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, Python).
• Associates/Bachelor/Master/Doctorate paths with required years of experience as alternatives.
• Equivalent experience accepted as qualifications.

Responsabilidades

• Design, develop, test and ship high-quality scalable solutions across GitHub services.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and code reviews to grow others.
• Own and advocate for health and quality of team systems; participate in on-call rotations.
• Write architecture briefs and proposals; design APIs for integration between components.
• Drive technical roadmap aligned with product goals and adopt new technologies.

Conhecimentos

9+ years experience

Associates Degree + 8+ years exp

Bachelor's Degree + 7+ years exp

Master's Degree + 5+ years exp

Doctorate + 3+ years exp

Equivalent experience

Formação académica

Associates Degree in Computer Science / related fields

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science / related field

Master's Degree in Computer Science / related field

Doctorate in Computer Science / related field

Equivalent experience

Ferramentas

Rust

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Staff Software Engineer, Code Search

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

Full Time

Overview

GitHub is shaping the future of software development in the age of AI agents - and search is at the heart of it.

As GitHub's lexical and semantic code search engine, Blackbird powers context retrieval for business-critical experiences across the platform and our Copilot products, including Cloud Agent, Code Review, Copilot CLI, and VS Code.

We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to help develop, scale, operate and extend Blackbird including integrating with AI Agents and developing new AI-powered software development workflows. You'll be part of our Copilot Agents organization, positively impacting millions of software developers and AI agents around the world who are building everything from open source to global enterprises.

We are looking for creative problem solvers and diverse thinkers, people who care about culture as well as customers and features. We believe that how we do things is as important as what we do. Big vision, a common purpose, passion for quality, curiosity, dedication, and investment in fun and collaboration are what lead to great results. Great products reflect the teams that build them.

More of the world’s development data lives on GitHub than anywhere else. Helping developers navigate and understand that data is a core part of GitHub’s mission, and an area with significant potential we have only begun to realize. We have high aspirations for how we can help developers understand and navigate code, and for making collaboration more seamless. The foundation for these efforts is our purpose-built code search engine which powers lexical and semantic code search in GitHub’s core search experience as well as GitHub’s Copilot products.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• 9+ 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 Associates Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 8+ 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 or related field AND 7+ 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 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 Doctorate in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ 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 equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building or operating web-scale search, information retrieval, or context retrieval systems.
• Expertise with systems programming languages - ideally Rust.
• Experience designing or integrating AI/ML-powered features into production systems.
• Prior experience solving problems with large-scale, distributed systems is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test and ship high-quality technical solutions that scale across multiple GitHub services and become intimately familiar with the systems you build and take pride in writing maintainable code.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, pairing opportunities, and code reviews to encourage the growth of others; support teams in producing extensible and maintainable code, ensuring integration with downstream dependencies and adherence to quality standards.
• Help cultivate an environment where team members are empowered and demonstrate a strong sense of ownership and belonging.
• Own and advocate for the health and quality of the systems that the team builds, including participating in on-call for first responder rotations and live incidents.
• Write architecture briefs and proposals and carry out code experiments.
• Design and implement APIs to facilitate seamless integration between software components.
• Maintain executional and operational excellence within and potentially across teams/organizations.
• Apply debugging tools and telemetry to verify assumptions, proactively resolve issues, and optimize code performance and maintainability.
• Drive and support technical roadmap that aligns with product goals, ensuring that engineering efforts are strategically prioritized and incorporating the adoption of new technologies and methodologies where applicable.
• Work with the team to understand technical constraints, and develop, communicate, and track against realistic plans to consistently ship products, features, and bug fixes.

Compensation Range

The base salary range for this job is USD $140,400.00 - USD $372,300.00 /Yr.