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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Staff Software Engineer - **Company:** GITHUB SOFTWARE LLC - **Location:** United States (Remote available) - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** C (Programming Language), Java (Programming Language), JavaScript (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), C Sharp (Programming Language), C++ (Programming Language), Databases, Computer Engineering, Distributed Systems, Github, Python (Programming Language), Ruby, Software Engineering, Software Technical Review, Rust (Programming Language), Indexer, Git, Information Technology, Golang - **Published:** September 3, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/ee008680-9ad4-48a6-9dc3-b39cfb5cde89 ## About the Role * 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 Preferred Qualifications: * 1+ years' experience developing software in Ruby and/or Go. * 1+ years' experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems or platform infrastructure with demanding reliability and performance requirements. * 1+ years' experience diagnosing and improving the scalability, observability, resilience, and performance of high-traffic production systems. * Experience with monolith decomposition, service extraction, or other large-scale architecture migrations. ## Description We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to help lead Pull Request Platform through a period of significant technical investment. The team is strengthening production reliability in a complex, high-traffic area, contributing to GitHub's service-extraction efforts, and evolving its infrastructure to meet growing scale requirements. You'll join our Core Productivity organization and directly influence the reliability and performance of one of GitHub's most visible and heavily used features. As a staff engineer, you'll be a hands-on technical leader who shapes architecture, guides complex initiatives, and helps the team turn ambiguous problems into durable solutions. You'll work across Git operations, databases, search, APIs, and asynchronous workflows while helping define the platform's longer-term technical direction. This work blends distributed systems experience with pragmatic execution - moving between writing and reviewing code, leading architectural decisions, improving production systems, and building alignment across organizational boundaries. You'll partner closely with Pull Request Experience, Repositories Platform, Git Systems, and other teams across GitHub while mentoring engineers and helping the team grow its technical practices. Responsibilities * Lead the architecture, design, implementation, and evolution of systems that power pull requests at GitHub scale. * Help define and execute the Pull Request Platform technical roadmap, aligning engineering investments with GitHub's reliability, scalability, and service-extraction priorities. * Solve complex technical challenges spanning Git operations, databases, search and indexing, APIs, and asynchronous workflows. * Design, develop, test, and ship maintainable solutions that operate across multiple GitHub services. * Own and advocate for the health of the team's production systems, including participating in on-call rotations, incident response, and post-incident improvements. * Set high standards for operational safety, testing, observability, deployment practices, and production rollouts. * Write architecture briefs and technical proposals, conduct code experiments, and clearly communicate tradeoffs and operational risks. * Partner across engineering teams to define scalable interfaces, reduce system friction, and lead initiatives such as service extraction and platform hardening. * Provide technical leadership through mentorship, pairing, code and design reviews, and guidance that helps other engineers deliver extensible, maintainable systems. * Improve engineering and operational excellence through automation, tooling, and standardization across testing, deployment, and operations. ## Related Videos - [You’re a great coder? 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