Staff SWE – Enterprise Platform & AI Governance

GitHub, Inc.; United States; A distancia; USD 140.000 - 372.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

GitHub, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the Enterprise Platform team. The role focuses on building AI governance, policy controls and observability for GitHub Copilot, with hands-on platform engineering and cross-team collaboration.

You will own critical APIs, state management, and production readiness across services. Based in the United States and able to work remotely, you will partner with product, design, security, and Copilot teams to ship trustworthy governance

Formación

• 9+ years experience in Software Engineering with production software delivery.
• 2+ years experience in technical leadership roles.
• Experience with enterprise governance, policy enforcement, or auditing is preferred.

Responsabilidades

• Design, implement, test, ship, and support backend services and APIs for enterprise configuration, policy enforcement, and auditing.
• Develop clear domain models and API and event contracts, including state ownership and resource lifecycles.
• Implement workflows across dependent services with explicit state transitions and idempotent operations.
• Lead architecture decisions by framing the customer problem and evaluating tradeoffs.
• Remain close to implementation through coding, debugging, prototyping, pairing, and code review.
• Partner with upstream/downstream teams to align integration contracts and ownership.
• Own service health through telemetry, alerts, incident response, and on-call rotations.
• Establish success criteria before launch using tests, telemetry, and user feedback.
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines and release practices for safe delivery.
• Write architecture briefs and proposals to align teams and decisions.
• Drive a technical roadmap balancing customer needs with reliability and cost.

Conocimientos

Software engineering experience

Technical leadership

Educación

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

Herramientas

Go

Ruby

Descripción del empleo

GitHub, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the Enterprise Platform team. The role focuses on building AI governance, policy controls and observability for GitHub Copilot, with hands-on platform engineering and cross-team collaboration.

You will own critical APIs, state management, and production readiness across services. Based in the United States and able to work remotely, you will partner with product, design, security, and Copilot teams to ship trustworthy governance