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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Principal Software Engineer, Copilot Code Review - **Company:** GitHub - **Location:** Beverly Hills, CA, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** C (Programming Language), Java (Programming Language), JavaScript (Programming Language), Artificial Intelligence, C Sharp (Programming Language), C++ (Programming Language), Code Review, Computer Programming, Computer Engineering, Github, Python (Programming Language), Ruby, Microsoft Copilot, Software Engineering, TypeScript, Rust (Programming Language), GitHub Copilot, Large Language Models, Information Technology, Golang - **Published:** November 11, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/principal-software-engineer-copilot-code-review-beverly-hills-ca--9a57045a-6a8f-4a83-81c3-5c0ae2b7a29a ## About the Role Software Engineering, Code Reviews, GitHub, Software Development, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Computer Programming, Code Reviews, On Call, Software Engineering, Research Laboratory, * 11+ 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 10+ 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 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 Master's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, 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 Doctorate 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 equivalent experience. Preferred Qualifications: * Experience owning the architecture and the hardest technical calls on a large-scale production system. * Hands-on experience applying frontier models at scale, with a grounded sense of what they can and can't do. * Experience owning the evaluation that decides whether a model-driven product is improving and sharpening the evals themselves when they fall short. * Depth in Go, Ruby, TypeScript, or Python, with the operational experience of running a distributed service on call at GitHub scale. * Experience building an LLM-backed or agentic product in production or partnering with research teams to ship model capability. ## Description * Drive how the review agent works: the context it reasons over, the models it runs, and what it carries across reviews. * Bet on where model capability is heading, and work with model labs and research teams to turn it into better reviews. * Define what a great AI review is, and hold the product to it with offline evals, online experiments, and production evidence. * Own the quality of the end-to-end review experience across VS Code, the GitHub Copilot app, and the GitHub Copilot CLI, and pull requests. * Own the reliability of a high-throughput service running at GitHub scale, including the on-call rotation. * Mentor senior and staff engineers, collaborate across disciplines, and help steer the team and product, all while staying hands-on: experimenting, shipping code, and building evals. * 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_**. More than 150 million people use GitHub to discover, fork, and contribute to over 420 million projects. **Tech Stack:** Ruby, Ruby on Rails **Industries:** Enterprise Software, Platform - **Size:** 1,001–5,000 employees - **HQ:** San Francisco, United States of America - **Hiring in:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, AMSTERDAM +1 more [Company profile](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/companies/3968-github) ### More Jobs at GitHub - [Senior Cloud Security Engineer](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/jobs/ext/4659625-senior-cloud-security-engineer) - [Support Engineer III](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/jobs/ext/4639240-support-engineer-iii) - [Senior Software Engineer, Identity Platform](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/jobs/ext/4636914-senior-software-engineer-identity-platform) [All 32 roles](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/companies/3968-github#jobs)