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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Software Engineer - **Company:** GitHub - **Location:** United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $329,200.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** C (Programming Language), Java (Programming Language), JavaScript (Programming Language), C Sharp (Programming Language), C++ (Programming Language), Computer Engineering, Distributed Systems, Github, Python (Programming Language), Ruby, Software Engineering, TypeScript, Rust (Programming Language), Model-Driven Development, GitHub Copilot, Large Language Models, Information Technology, Golang - **Published:** August 16, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/8bcf2c3b-6984-465c-bcef-e583903c0a16 ## About the Role * 6+ 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 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 Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ 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 2+ 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. + OR equivalent experience., * Hands-on experience pushing coding agents to their limits, with a view on where they help and where they don't. * Experience improving a nondeterministic, model-driven system and quantifying the gain in aggregate. * Fundamentals in Go, Ruby, TypeScript, or Python, with the distributed systems and operational experience to keep a service healthy under load. * Experience building an LLM-backed or agentic product in production, or the evals behind one. ## Description * Improve how the agent reviews: the context it uses, what it remembers, and how it handles a pull request as it changes over time. * Integrate frontier models and weigh review quality against latency and cost. * Prove changes with offline and online evals and help sharpen the evals themselves. * Work on the end-to-end review experience developers use in VS Code, the GitHub Copilot app, and the GitHub Copilot CLI, and on pull requests. * Drive down false positives and the comments developers scroll past. * 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. ## About GitHub GitHub is **_where people build software_**. 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