Staff Software Engineer, Copilot AI Models - Performance

GitHub, Inc.

United States

On-site

USD 140,400 - 372,300

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

GitHub, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the Copilot AI Models team. You will build and operate a scalable platform powering Copilot features, focusing on highly available backend services and APIs.

You will work with engineers and PMs across GitHub and partner teams to improve reliability, performance, and maintainability of the Copilot API platform, enabling seamless integration with Copilot capabilities for developers worldwide.

Qualifications

  • Minimum 9+ years of software engineering or 8+ with an Associate's degree as alternate path.
  • Experience building and operating distributed systems in production.
  • Experience delivering production software in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python.
  • Strong knowledge of reliability, performance, and scalability considerations.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, test and ship scalable solutions across GitHub services.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement innovative solutions.
  • Provide technical leadership, mentorship, code reviews, and pair programming.
  • Own health and quality of systems, including on-call rotations.

Skills

Distributed systems
Backend services
Lang: C/C++/Java/Go/Python
API design
On-call rotations
Leadership & mentorship

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field
Master's degree in CS or related field
Doctorate in CS/EE/related
Associate's degree + 8+ years experience
Equivalent experience

Tools

CI/CD tooling
Linux/Unix environments

Job description

GitHub, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the Copilot AI Models team. You will build and operate a scalable platform powering Copilot features, focusing on highly available backend services and APIs.

You will work with engineers and PMs across GitHub and partner teams to improve reliability, performance, and maintainability of the Copilot API platform, enabling seamless integration with Copilot capabilities for developers worldwide.

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