Senior Partner Engineer

GitHub is the world’s leading platform for agentic software development, and they are seeking a Senior Partner Engineer to elevate their partner ecosystem and product integration efforts. The role involves working hands-on with strategic partners to build deep integrations and influence GitHub's product roadmap by translating partner requirements into platform-level opportunities.

Responsibilities:

• Synthesize partner, customer, and industry insights to identify high-leverage ecosystem opportunities
• Advise both partners and internal GitHub teams on where integrations deliver differentiated developer value, and where product or platform gaps exist
• Design, build, and maintain high-quality reference integrations, sample apps, CLIs, SDK extensions, workflows, and architectures demonstrating best practices for scale, security, and developer experience
• Architect, build, and demonstrate technical Proofs of Concept (POCs) and Points of View (POVs) with partners, instrumenting success criteria, performance, and security baselines, leveraging modern AI tooling and proficiency in languages like Go, Ruby, or Typescript
• Create and deliver enablement—including documentation, workshops, and hands-on labs for partner SEs, CEs, and field engineers
• Act as the technical voice of partners inside GitHub, surfacing integration friction, API constraints, and ecosystem opportunities
• Collaborate closely with Product and Engineering teams to shape GitHub’s and GitHub Copilot’s platform capabilities, prioritization, and developer experience improvements
• Own the end-to-end integration lifecycle with partners from design and prototype through hardening, security review, production rollout, and ongoing reliability/observability ensuring integrations meet GitHub-quality bars and scale with developer demand
• Act as the technical voice of the partner, providing feedback and escalating pressing issues
• Collaborate across teams (Partner Management, Sales, and Marketing) to unblock technical issues in deals, validate joint value propositions, and support launches (blogs, webinars, talks, demos)
• Define and help implement integration acceptance criteria (performance, security, reliability) and support readiness for partner integrations; define and instrument success in collaboration with the Product team
• Champion a culture of innovation, clarity, and empathy for developers

Requirements:

• 7+ years experience in business development, partner management, strategy development, corporate development, go-to-market, partner marketing, or related experience
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business or related field AND 5+ years experience in business development, partner management, strategy development, corporate development, go-to-market, partner marketing, or related experience
• OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business or related field AND 3+ years experience in business development, partner management, strategy development, corporate development, go-to-market, partner marketing, or related experience
• OR Doctorate in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business or related field AND 1+ year(s) experience in business development, partner management, strategy development, corporate development, go-to-market, partner marketing, or related experience
• OR equivalent experience
• 7+ years experience in technical consulting, technical consultative selling, software engineering, or related technical/sales/industry experience
• Experience with APIs, SDKs, developer platforms, and generative AI practices, large language models (LLMs), or prompt engineering
• 9+ years experience in business development, partner management, strategy development, corporate development, go-to-market, partner marketing, or related experience
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business or related field AND 7+ years experience in business development, partner management, strategy development, corporate development, go-to-market, partner marketing, or related experience
• OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business or related field AND 5+ years experience in business development, partner management, strategy development, corporate development, go-to-market, partner marketing, or related experience
• OR Doctorate in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business or related field AND 3+ years experience in business development, partner management, strategy development, corporate development, go-to-market, partner marketing, or related experience
• 3+ years experience with APIs, SDKs, developer platforms, and generative AI practices, large language models (LLMs), or prompt engineering
• Experience working directly with external partners or customers on complex technical implementations, operating with high autonomy and ownership
• Experience owning the end-to-end integration lifecycle with partners—from design and prototype through hardening, security review, production rollout, and ongoing reliability/observability—ensuring integrations meet GitHub-quality bars and scale with developer demand