Staff Software Engineer — Copilot AI Platform

GitHub; United States; On-site; USD 140,400 - 372,300; Full time

Job summary

GitHub is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Copilot AI Models team to design, build, and run a scalable platform powering Copilot features and integrations. The role focuses on highly available backend services and APIs, with emphasis on latency, cost, and operational excellence.

The ideal candidate will own reliability, performance, and maintainability of distributed systems, collaborate across distributed teams, and lead architecture efforts while participating in on-call rotations and

Qualifications

• Experience building and operating distributed systems in production.
• Ability to own health and quality of complex systems and participate in on-call rotations.
• Strong emphasis on reliability, performance, and maintainability of backend services and APIs.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test and ship high-quality technical solutions that scale across multiple GitHub services.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement innovative solutions.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, pairing opportunities, and code reviews to encourage growth of others.

Skills

Distributed systems

Backend services

On-call experience

Code reviews

Mentorship

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Doctorate in Computer Science or related field

Associate’s Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

C

C++

C#

Java

JavaScript

Go

Ruby

Rust

Python

Job description

GitHub is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Copilot AI Models team to design, build, and run a scalable platform powering Copilot features and integrations. The role focuses on highly available backend services and APIs, with emphasis on latency, cost, and operational excellence.

The ideal candidate will own reliability, performance, and maintainability of distributed systems, collaborate across distributed teams, and lead architecture efforts while participating in on-call rotations and