Staff Software Engineer - Remote, Scale & Secure
GitHub, Inc.
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Job summary
GitHub is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to drive identity and authorization enterprise services. You will shape the future of our identity platform, collaborating with many teams to deliver secure, scalable experiences for enterprise customers.
You will lead design discussions, contribute to architecture, and mentor engineers while ensuring reliability and performance across GitHub services. This role emphasizes remote collaboration and strong technical leadership.
Qualifications
- 9+ years of production software experience across multiple languages.
- Experience with large-scale cloud architectures and microservices.
- Leadership roles in technical teams and roadmaps.
- Familiarity with AI or agentic workflows.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test and ship scalable software across GitHub services.
- Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and code reviews.
- Own health and quality of complex systems, including on-call rotations.
- Write architecture briefs, run experiments and iterate on designs.
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams on trade-offs and security.
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Job description
GitHub is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to drive identity and authorization enterprise services. You will shape the future of our identity platform, collaborating with many teams to deliver secure, scalable experiences for enterprise customers.
You will lead design discussions, contribute to architecture, and mentor engineers while ensuring reliability and performance across GitHub services. This role emphasizes remote collaboration and strong technical leadership.
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