GitHub · 18 hours ago
Senior Software Engineer, Copilot Agents
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$124K/yr - $329K/yr
6+ years expGitHub is the world’s leading platform for agentic software development, powered by Copilot. The Senior Software Engineer in the Copilot Agents organization is responsible for building and expanding code analysis engines and agents, ensuring the security and quality of software through collaboration with various teams.
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Responsibilities
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join one of the distributed software engineering teams responsible for building and expanding code analysis engines and agents at GitHub
You will work closely with various engineering teams, product managers, designers, and technical writers that build different aspects of the products, to influence product direction and deliver features to users, with clear focus on quality, reliability, and user experience
You will engage with internal users and external users (both from enterprise customers and the open-source community) to help them succeed with the product
You’ll influence and provide feedback on the organizational culture and processes, always looking for opportunities to improve in a continuous pursuit of excellence
Qualification
Required
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/TypeScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python
OR Associate's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, 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/TypeScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python
OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, 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/TypeScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python
OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, 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/TypeScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python
OR Doctorate in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, or related field
OR equivalent experience
3+ years of experience with one or more of the following areas: Experience building developer tools that operate on source code, such as compilers, parsers, linters, static analyzers, debuggers, CLI tools, or IDE extensions
OR Machine learning and AI applied to understanding source code, specifically building systems that use large language models (LLMs) to generate or reason about code, and systematic benchmarking and evaluation of those systems
Preferred
Experience with both of the areas listed above
Experience designing and running statistically-sound experiments to measure performance and quality, evaluating results to minimize bias and noise
Experience with code security analysis
Industry or research knowledge of compilers, program analysis, programming language design and implementation
Benefits
Annual bonus
Stock
Competitive pay
Generous learning and growth opportunities
Excellent benefits
Company
GitHub
GitHub is a software company that offers code hosting services that allow developers to build software for open-source and private projects. It is a sub-organization of Microsoft.
501-1000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$350MKey Investors
Sequoia CapitalAndreessen Horowitz
2018-06-03Acquired
2015-07-29Series B· $250M
2015-06-19Secondary Market
Leadership Team
PJ Hyett
Co-Founder
Kyle Daigle
Chief Operating Officer
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