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Staff Software Engineer

Git*** · United States
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140,400-372,300 USD/yearly
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United States
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Job summary

- United States - Engineering - Experienced Professional - Individual Contributor - Yes - 5610 - Full Time JOB DESCRIPTION About Git*** Git*** is the world’s leading platform for agentic software development — powered by Copilot to build, scale, and deliver secure software.

Benefits

And additional rewards, including annual bonus and stock.These rewards are allocated based on individual impact in role.This position will be open for a minimum of 3 days, with applications accepted oGitHub valuesCustomer-obsessedShip to learnGrowth mindsetOwn the outcomeBetter togetherDiverse and inclusiveManager fundamentalsModel

Qualifications

  • Experienced Professional
  • Required
  • o OR equivalent experience.
  • Experience building and operating large-scale web applications serving millions of users, with a focus on reliability, performance, and iterative delivery.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead cross-team technical initiatives from problem definition through shipping and iteration.
  • Track record of mentoring engineers and raising the technical bar across a team or organization.
  • Preferred
  • Experience with Ruby on Rails, React, TypeScript, or Go in production, and comfort working full-stack from database to browser.
  • Deep familiarity with Git internals, diff algorithms, or code review tooling — as a contributor or a power user who understands the domain deeply.
  • Experience building developer

Responsibilities

  • As a Staff Software Engineer on the Code and Review team, you will shape the pull request and code review experience used by over 100 million developers.
  • You will design, build, and evolve the systems behind pull request creation, code review, the Files Changed experience, and the automation and integration workflows that power modern development.
  • Design, develop, test and ship high-quality solutions that scale across Git***’s services, with a focus on the pull request and code review workflow.
  • Take pride in writing maintainable code and becoming deeply familiar with the systems you build.
  • Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and code reviews that elevate the team; support others in producing extensible, maintainable code that integrates cleanly with downstream dependencies.
  • Own the health and quality of the systems the team builds, including participating in on-call rotations and live incident response.
  • Contribute across the full pull request product surface — PR creation, code review, merge workflows, and the Files Changed experience — owning features end-to-end from design through delivery.
  • Help evolve the code review and merge experience to support agent-driven development, where AI-authored code must be reviewed, validated, and shipped with the same rigor as human-authored contributions.
  • Write architecture briefs and proposals; carry out code experiments to validate approaches for improving the pull request experience.
  • Collaborate with product, design, and platform engineering to lead technical discussions, including design trade-offs and cost considerations.
  • Guide teams in developing testing strategies, defining success metrics, and integrating customer feedback — while ensuring architecture meets security and compliance standards.
  • Drive the technical roadmap for pull requests and code review, ensuring engineering efforts are strategically prioritized and incorporate new

Skills

CommunicationLeadership

Degrees

AssociateBachelorDegreeMasterPhD

Work schedule

On-callRotationShift

Industry

AutomotiveEnergy

Company size

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