Staff Software Engineer, Copilot Code Review (Remote)

GitHub, Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 372,000; Full time

Job summary

GitHub is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to tackle complex AI-assisted development challenges at scale. You’ll own end-to-end review problems, shape how an agent interacts with code, and lead by building rather than planning.

This role is remote-first in the United States, with an on-call rotation and opportunities to influence product directions across VS Code, Copilot apps, and pull requests.

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.

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, including when a change wins overall and loses on some pull requests.
• Shape the end‑to‑end review experience across VS Code, the GitHub Copilot app, and the GitHub Copilot CLI, and pull requests.
• Keep a high‑throughput service healthy at GitHub scale, including an on‑call rotation.
• Work at the frontier of how software gets built with agents and evolve workflows that make the whole team faster.

Skills

Software engineering

Distributed systems

Go

Python

C/C++

Java/JavaScript

Job description

GitHub is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to tackle complex AI-assisted development challenges at scale. You’ll own end-to-end review problems, shape how an agent interacts with code, and lead by building rather than planning.

This role is remote-first in the United States, with an on-call rotation and opportunities to influence product directions across VS Code, Copilot apps, and pull requests.