Staff Software Engineer, Enterprise AI Governance

GitHub is the world’s leading platform for agentic software development, and they are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the Enterprise AI Governance team. The role involves designing, prototyping, implementing, and supporting backend services and APIs to help customers securely manage Copilot experiences.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, test, and ship high-quality technical solutions that scale across GitHub services, staying intimately familiar with the systems you build and taking pride in maintainable code
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, pairing, and code reviews that grow others and help teams produce extensible, maintainable code that integrates cleanly with downstream dependencies and meets quality standards
• Own and advocate for the health and quality of the systems the team builds, including participating in on-call and first-responder rotations
• Write architecture briefs and proposals, and run code experiments
• Design and implement APIs that enable seamless integration between software components
• Use CI/CD tools to build automated pipelines for continuous integration and delivery
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders, leading discussions on technical solutions, including design and cost tradeoffs
• Create and guide others in developing testing plans, defining success metrics, and integrating customer feedback, ensuring quality, reliability, and continuous improvement while meeting security and compliance standards
• Maintain executional and operational excellence within and across teams and organizations
• Use debugging tools and telemetry to validate assumptions, proactively resolve issues, and optimize code performance and maintainability
• Drive and support a technical roadmap aligned with product goals, prioritizing engineering efforts and adopting new technologies and methodologies where applicable

Requirements:

• 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
• 2+ years experience in technical leadership roles such as technical lead, team lead or equivalent
• Hands-on experience with modern front-end technologies (e.g., React, CSS, HTML, JavaScript/TypeScript) and design systems
• 1+ years experience building agent-based experiences on top of large language modes (LLM's) including prompt engineering, tool use, and agentic workflow design
• 2 + years experience using general purpose programming languages (e.g., Go, Ruby, or similar)
• Demonstrated experience with large-scale system architecture and design, particularly in cloud-based environments, with a strong understanding of distributed systems and microservices
• Experience working closely with product management, design, and other engineering teams to drive cross-functional projects and deliver high-quality products