[Remote] Staff Software Engineer, Copilot Code Review
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. GitHub is a leading platform for agentic software development powered by Copilot. The Staff Software Engineer will lead the development of AI-powered code review, including agent context, evaluation systems, quality and performance tradeoffs, end-to-end review experiences, and high-throughput production services.
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
- * 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
- * Hands-on experience pushing coding agents to their limits, with a view on where they should and shouldn't own engineering work
- * Experience owning the measurement that makes a model-driven product improvable and catching metrics that move for the wrong reason
- * Depth in Go, Ruby, TypeScript, or Python, with the operational experience of running a distributed service on call at GitHub scale
- * Experience shipping an LLM-backed or agentic product, or the eval infrastructure behind one
Benefits
- Certain roles are eligible for an annual bonus.
- Certain roles are eligible for stock.
- Certain roles have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee's role.
- Remote-first work arrangement.
- Generous learning and growth opportunities.
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