Deep production engineering experience is essential. Prior AI or LLM experience is valuable but not required. We welcome engineers who have personally designed, implemented, and operated services that coordinate workflows and state across multiple systems. We value clear reasoning about service contracts, data ownership, failure behavior, and safe evolution. Experience building an AI integration is useful when accompanied by evidence of correctness, evaluation, and operational ownership.
You will partner with product, design, security, and other Copilot engineering teams to make governance capabilities trustworthy and straightforward to adopt across various client surfaces. We value curiosity, maintainable systems, clear communication, and collaboration. How we build is as important as what we ship.
Responsibilities
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, resource lifecycles, authorization boundaries, and compatibility.
Implement workflows across dependent services, with explicit state transitions, idempotent operations, and recovery from interrupted or partially completed work.
Lead architecture decisions by framing the customer problem, identifying constraints, evaluating alternatives, and making correctness, reliability, cost, and usability tradeoffs explicit.
Remain close to implementation through coding, debugging, prototyping, pairing, and code review. Help other engineers build extensible, maintainable software.
Partner with teams that own upstream and downstream services to agree on integration contracts, dependency behavior, and ownership. Design versioning, staged rollouts, and migrations that consumers can adopt safely.
Own service health through meaningful telemetry, actionable alerts, incident response, and participation in on-call and first-responder rotations.
Establish success criteria before launch. Use automated tests, production telemetry, customer feedback, and, where relevant, AI evaluations to identify failures and measure improvement.
Build and improve CI/CD pipelines and release practices that support safe, repeatable delivery.
Write architecture briefs and proposals that make complex decisions understandable and support alignment across teams.
Drive a technical roadmap aligned with product goals, balancing customer capabilities with reliability, security, maintainability, and engineering cost.
Qualifications
Required 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
OR Associate’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 8+ 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
OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field AND 7+ 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
OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ 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
OR Doctorate in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ 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
OR equivalent experience.
2+ years experience in technical leadership roles such as technical lead, team lead or equivalent.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience building shared enterprise capabilities such as policy enforcement, configuration management, or auditing, with ownership of implementation and production operation.
Experience with asynchronous workflows, event-driven integrations, or reconciliation between systems with different data models or lifecycle semantics.
Experience building AI-assisted workflows or agent-based systems, including tool integration, evaluations, failure analysis, and quality, latency, and cost tradeoffs.
Experience with Go, Ruby, or similar general-purpose programming languages.
Experience partnering closely with product management and design on administrator-facing or developer-facing products.
Compensation Range
The base salary range for this job is USD $140,400.00 - USD $372,300.00 /Yr.
These pay ranges are intended to cover roles based across the United States. An individual's base pay depends on various factors including geographical location and review of experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant. At GitHub certain roles are eligible for benefits and additional rewards, including annual bonus and stock. These rewards are allocated based on individual impact in role. In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee's role.
This position will be open for a minimum of 3 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
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Generate energy
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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, resource lifecycles, authorization boundaries, and compatibility.
Implement workflows across dependent services, with explicit state transitions, idempotent operations, and recovery from interrupted or partially completed work.
Lead architecture decisions by framing the customer problem, identifying constraints, evaluating alternatives, and making correctness, reliability, cost, and usability tradeoffs explicit.
Remain close to implementation through coding, debugging, prototyping, pairing, and code review. Help other engineers build extensible, maintainable software.
Partner with teams that own upstream and downstream services to agree on integration contracts, dependency behavior, and ownership. Design versioning, staged rollouts, and migrations that consumers can adopt safely.
Own service health through meaningful telemetry, actionable alerts, incident response, and participation in on-call and first-responder rotations.
Establish success criteria before launch. Use automated tests, production telemetry, customer feedback, and, where relevant, AI evaluations to identify failures and measure improvement.
Build and improve CI/CD pipelines and release practices that support safe, repeatable delivery.
Write architecture briefs and proposals that make complex decisions understandable and support alignment across teams.
Drive a technical roadmap aligned with product goals, balancing customer capabilities with reliability, security, maintainability, and engineering cost.
Required 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
OR Associate’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 8+ 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
OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field AND 7+ 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
OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ 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
OR Doctorate in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ 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
OR equivalent experience.
2+ years experience in technical leadership roles such as technical lead, team lead or equivalent.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience building shared enterprise capabilities such as policy enforcement, configuration management, or auditing, with ownership of implementation and production operation.
Experience with asynchronous workflows, event-driven integrations, or reconciliation between systems with different data models or lifecycle semantics.
Experience building AI-assisted workflows or agent-based systems, including tool integration, evaluations, failure analysis, and quality, latency, and cost tradeoffs.
Experience with Go, Ruby, or similar general-purpose programming languages.
Experience partnering closely with product management and design on administrator-facing or developer-facing products.
