Staff Software Engineer

About this role

About GitHub GitHub is the world’s leading platform for agentic software development — powered by Copilot to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 180 million developers, including more than 90% of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to collaborate, and more than 77,000 organisations have adopted GitHub Copilot. Locations In this role you can work from Remote, United States Overview As the global home for all developers, GitHub is the complete AI-powered developer platform to build, scale, and deliver secure software

With Codespaces, we’re building and operating instant-on, remote cloud development environments. In this model, engineers work in cloud development environments — tailored for a specific project — where the overhead of launching a task-specific workbench is effectively zero. Work on a bug, review a change, or just try something out, all booted from a clean baseline ready for your commits

Not only does this accelerate engineers day to day coding, but it is also used across GitHub.com to iterate on and validate Copilot-generated code. We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join this team and drive the continued evolution of Codespaces, shaping the future of cloud-based development for GitHub and its users. In this role, you will play a critical role in shaping and implementing the future of the Codespaces product

You will work directly with developers and customers to help define the future of cloud development environments across GitHub.com. You will work with a strong team of developers to design and build a platform that is secure, reliable and most of all fun to develop on. Note, this Staff position is not only one where you get to design solutions, but one where you will have the opportunity to ship large features as part of the job

Responsibilities Design, develop, test and ship high-quality technical solutions that scale across multiple GitHub services and become intimately familiar with the systems you build and take pride i

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