About GitHub:
As the global home for all developers, GitHub is the complete AI-powered developer platform to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 100 million people, including developers from 90 of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to build amazing things together across 330+ million repositories. With all the collaborative features of GitHub, it has never been easier for individuals and teams to write faster, better code.
Locations:
In this role you can work from Remote, United Kingdom
Overview:
GitHub Copilot is changing the way the world builds software, and we want you to help build Copilot! We’re looking for a Software Engineer III to join the team building Copilot chat in GitHub.com.
As a Software Engineer III on the Copilot Core Productivity team, you will work closely with a distributed, diverse, and passionate team of engineers, product managers, and designers across multiple teams at GitHub to build and improve Copilot capabilities across GitHub.com.
Responsibilities:
Responsibilities:
Work with the team to understand technical constraints, and develop, communicate, and track against realistic plans to consistently ship products, features, and bug fixes
Coordinate with engineering and product leadership to define and prioritize projects that help us meet business objectives
Ensure the team builds software that is architecturally consistent and of high quality to reliably meet customer needs
Support a highly available service used by millions of users on a daily basis
Help cultivate an environment where team members are empowered and demonstrate a strong sense of ownership and belonging
Mentor, pair, and delegate work to encourage the professional and technical growth of your team and those around you
Qualifications:
Minimum Qualifications:
Experience designing, building, scaling and maintaining distributed systems
Experience effectively contributing to technical strategy and roadmaps
Solid understanding of testing principles and high quality software
Understanding of production system monitoring and observability
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience with Go and related tooling
Experience with distributed systems at global scale
Experience working with a remote, distributed team
Interest or prior experience in modern AI/machine learning technologies, Large Language Models or similar
- Passionate about fostering good engineering practices and processes
- Strong customer focus and data driven approach
- Excellent analytical skills as well as communication skills both verbal and written. We’re a distributed team so we’re extra mindful about communication.
GitHub Leadership Principles:
GitHub values
- Customer-obsessed
- Ship to learn
- Growth mindset
- Own the outcome
- Better together
- Diverse and inclusive
Manager fundamentals
Leadership principles
- Create clarity
- Generate energy
- Deliver success
Who We Are:
GitHub is the world’s leading AI-powered developer platform with 100 million developers and counting. We’re also home to the biggest open-source community on earth (and 99% of the world’s software has open-source code in its DNA). Many of the apps and programs you use every day are built on GitHub.
Our teams are dreamers, doers, and pioneers, leading the way in AI, driving humanitarian efforts around the globe, and even sending open source to Mars (and beyond!).
At GitHub, our goal is to create the space you need to do your best work. We’re remote-first and offer competitive pay, generous learning and growth opportunities, and excellent benefits to support you, wherever you are—because we know that people flourish when they can work on their own terms.
Join us, and let’s change the world, together.
EEO Statement:
GitHub is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We embrace diversity and invite applications from people of all walks of life. We don't discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences. Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you; we're happy to accommodate!
