Staff Software Engineer - Identity Platform, Remote

Github; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 372,000; Full time

Job summary

GitHub is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to help drive the evolution of enterprise-focused identity and authorization services. You will collaborate with engineering teams and product partners to deliver reliable, scalable experiences for our customers.

This role emphasizes design, prototyping, and shipping high‑quality platform services, with leadership, mentorship, and on-call responsibility. Join us to shape the future of secure software on a remote-friendly team.

Qualifications

• 9+ years in software engineering with production code across multiple languages.
• 2+ years in technical leadership (tech lead or equivalent).
• Experience with large-scale cloud architectures and microservices.
• Familiarity with AI or agentic workflows in implementation.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and ship scalable services across GitHub systems.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and code reviews.
• Own system health, participate in on-call rotations.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams on architecture and cost.

Skills

Software engineering experience

Technical leadership

Distributed systems

AI workflows

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Master's degree in CS or related field

Doctorate in CS or related field

Tools

React

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

MySQL

CosmosDB

Elasticsearch

Datadog

Sentry

Job description

GitHub is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to help drive the evolution of enterprise-focused identity and authorization services. You will collaborate with engineering teams and product partners to deliver reliable, scalable experiences for our customers.

This role emphasizes design, prototyping, and shipping high‑quality platform services, with leadership, mentorship, and on-call responsibility. Join us to shape the future of secure software on a remote-friendly team.