Senior Software Engineer, Codespaces & Copilot Workspace

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:

We’re building the future of cloud development with Codespaces: instant-on, container-based cloud environments tailored to specific projects, enabling developers to focus on writing code rather than managing setups. As a Senior Engineer on the compute team, you’ll design and implement a secure, reliable, and efficient platform that powers Codespaces, Copilot Workspace, and our LLM-based tooling. Your work will directly impact developers worldwide, ensuring these tools are always available, performant, cost-effective, and delightful to use.

 

At GitHub, you’ll collaborate with a distributed, diverse, and passionate team of engineers and designers, delivering services that millions of developers depend on daily. In this role, you’ll design, prototype, implement, ship, and support highly performant, inspiring experiences that enhance collaboration and productivity for developers everywhere.

 

We’re looking for creative problem solvers and diverse thinkers who value culture as much as customers and features. We believe how we work is just as important as what we deliver. Big vision, shared purpose, passion for quality, curiosity, dedication, and investment in fun and collaboration are what drive great results. Great products reflect the teams that build them—come join us!

Responsibilities:

• Own and advocate for the health and quality of the systems that the team builds, including participating in on-call rotations and responding to incidents as necessary.
• Design, develop and ship high-quality technical solutions that scale across multiple GitHub services.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement innovative solutions.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, pairing opportunities, and code reviews to encourage the growth of others.
• Write architecture briefs and proposals, carry out code experiments, and build prototypes to learn how we can achieve planetary scale with our systems.
• Design and implement APIs to facilitate seamless integration between software components.
• Utilize CI/CD tools to set up automated pipelines for continuous integration and delivery.
• Become intimately familiar with the systems you build and take pride in writing maintainable code.

Qualifications:

Required Qualifications:

• 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 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, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 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 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.
• OR equivalent experience.
• Experience in cloud-native development, including designing, building, and deploying scalable applications using microservices architecture, containers (e.g., Docker), and orchestration tools like Kubernetes. Proficiency in leveraging cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, or GCP) for optimizing application performance and scalability.
• Experience with on-call rotations, incident response and site reliability, including diagnosing and resolving complex production issues under pressure.
• Experience implementing and maintaining compliance and security practices in software development, including secure coding, vulnerability management, data privacy, and regulatory standards (e.g., GDPR, SOC 2, HIPAA). Proficiency in designing systems with robust security measures and ensuring adherence to organizational and industry compliance requirements.

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Proficiency in modern programming languages such as C#, TypeScript, Go, and Rust.
• Excellent written and verbal communication via async collaboration, documentation, and visibility of work.
• Experience working with a remote, distributed team.
• Passionate about fostering effective Engineering practices and processes.
• Proficiency in Git and GitHub for version control and collaborative development and branching strategies.
• Experience with CI/CD Tools: Strong knowledge of CI/CD concepts and best practices. Experience with GitHub actions and workflows platform, familiar with other tools like Jenkins
• Contribute to open source software, engage with maintainers, and actively participate in community curation.

GitHub Leadership Principles:

GitHub values

• Customer-obsessed
• Ship to learn
• Growth mindset
• Own the outcome
• Better together
• Diverse and inclusive

Manager fundamentals

• Model
• Coach
• Care

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.
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