Staff Software Engineer, Copilot Code Review

GitHub is a leading platform for agentic software development powered by Copilot. The Staff Software Engineer will lead the development of AI-powered code review, including agent context, evaluation systems, quality and performance tradeoffs, end-to-end review experiences, and high-throughput production services.

Responsibilities:

• Own product problems that arrive without an answer and ship the answer end to end
• Advance how the agent reviews: the context it uses, what it remembers, and how it improves over time
• Decide what a good review looks like for a class of code, then build the evals that hold the product to it
• Make the quality, latency, and cost tradeoffs that decide how deep a review goes
• Improve review quality in aggregate and quantify the gain, including when a change wins overall and loses on some pull requests
• Shape the end-to-end review experience across VS Code, the GitHub Copilot app, and the GitHub Copilot CLI, and pull requests
• Keep a high-throughput service healthy at GitHub scale, including an on-call rotation
• Work at the frontier of how software gets built with agents and evolve workflows that make the whole team faster

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
• • Hands-on experience pushing coding agents to their limits, with a view on where they should and shouldn't own engineering work
• • Experience owning the measurement that makes a model-driven product improvable and catching metrics that move for the wrong reason
• • Depth in Go, Ruby, TypeScript, or Python, with the operational experience of running a distributed service on call at GitHub scale
• • Experience shipping an LLM-backed or agentic product, or the eval infrastructure behind one