About GitHub GitHub is the world's leading platform for agentic software development - powered by Copilot to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 180 million developers, including more than 90% of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to collaborate, and more than 77,000 organisations have adopted GitHub Copilot. Locations In this role you can work from Remote, United Kingdom Overview The Elasticsearch team at GitHub owns the infrastructure and code that powers searching Issues, Pull Requests, Projects, Discussions and more. We're responsible for the creation and management of large scale Elasticsearch clusters (hundreds of terabytes of data serving multiple thousands of reads and writes per second). Our problem space also includes optimizing index creation, population, repair and reindex processes to ensure that indexes with billions or trillions of records are recoverable, correctly mapped, and can be restored quickly. At the same time we're also focused on pushing the boundaries of cluster management, scale and availability. We're looking for a senior search and data focused engineer to join the team and help us build the future of Search at GitHub. Our top priorities include scaling support for both agentic and human driven traffic, improving relevance tooling for teams that build search experiences, and building an API driven interface between our relational data and search indexes. Responsibilities Infrastructure Development and Management Builds and enhances the physical and/or virtual frameworks and tools that are used to manage and maintain the infrastructure. Helps create scalable and efficient systems, automates processes, and improves overall infrastructure performance. Participates in capacity planning and design initiatives. With minimal guidance, assesses infrastructure capacity needs, predicts growth trends, and plans for scalability. Ensures sufficient resources are allocated and infrastructure is properly scaled to handle increasing demands. Expands infrastructure/platform offerings to meet business and developer needs. Site Availability and Performance Acts as the first point of contact for user issues in this area of responsibility. Engages with other teams to diagnose and respond to broad incidents. Solicits information from customers to form an understanding of the nature of the outage and identify potential troubleshooting steps. Ensures the security and compliance of the infrastructure. Collaborates with security teams to implement and maintain robust security measures, conduct vulnerability assessments, and adhere to relevant regulatory standards. Performs timely upgrades to applications/open source software (OSS)/operating systems used for operation of the infrastructure. Establishes appropriate observability and monitoring of infrastructure to proactively identify and address situations, including instructional playbooks. Researches and understands performance gaps or outages. Executes disaster recovery/failure test scenarios. Elasticsearch Infrastructure and Management Identifies areas for optimization, implements innovative solutions, and drives initiatives to enhance system performance, reliability, and scalability. Stays updated with latest technologies, industry trends, and best practices in infrastructure engineering. Implements projects that incorporates these into GitHub platforms. Troubleshooting Understands how to read and assess common errors to form accurate diagnoses and create or direct fixes. Remains on call to handle incidents and outages, investigating and resolving issues promptly to minimize the downtime and impact on services. Contributes to incident management processes, participates in incident report out, identifies root causes, and implements preventive measures to avoid similar incidents in the future. Collaboration Contributes to open source projects. Collaborates with broader open source community to enhance existing tools, develop new features, and share best practices with other infrastructure engineers in the industry. Collaborates with software engineers and other infrastructure teams to troubleshoot issues and optimise infrastructure performance. Understands systems and writes technical design docs to drive shared understanding and alignment across partner teams and stakeholders. Collaborates with various teams to identify cross team opportunities for new features and improvement and able to approach every development task with a "How do I observe the impact of this" mindset and similarly approach Production incidents with a thought to "How could I have seen this earlier". Qualifications Required Qualifications 6+ years technical and/or management experience in infrastructure domains (e.g., container orchestration engineering, platform engineering, database engineering, software engineering, network engineering, systems administration, or related field) o OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 4+ years technical experience in infrastructure domains (e.g., container orchestration engineering, platform engineering, database engineering, software engineering, network engineering, systems administration, or related field) o OR equivalent experience. 1+ year(s) technical leadership experience. 6+ years experience of Building, deploying and maintaining Elasticsearch at scale. 3+ years experience using general purpose programming languages (e.g., Go, Ruby, or Rust). Preferred Qualifications 6+ years experience with Lucene/Apache based search engines such as Elasticsearch, Opensearch or Solr. 6+ years experience with Search Relevance, Scoring and building Search Experiences and with Infrastructure as code, configuration management and associated tooling such as Terraform, Puppet and Ansible. 3 years+ experience in one or more scripting languages (e.g., Bash, Python, or a similar language). 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 150 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!
15/07/2026
Full time
About GitHub GitHub is the world's leading platform for agentic software development - powered by Copilot to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 180 million developers, including more than 90% of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to collaborate, and more than 77,000 organisations have adopted GitHub Copilot. Locations In this role you can work from Remote, United Kingdom Overview The Elasticsearch team at GitHub owns the infrastructure and code that powers searching Issues, Pull Requests, Projects, Discussions and more. We're responsible for the creation and management of large scale Elasticsearch clusters (hundreds of terabytes of data serving multiple thousands of reads and writes per second). Our problem space also includes optimizing index creation, population, repair and reindex processes to ensure that indexes with billions or trillions of records are recoverable, correctly mapped, and can be restored quickly. At the same time we're also focused on pushing the boundaries of cluster management, scale and availability. We're looking for a senior search and data focused engineer to join the team and help us build the future of Search at GitHub. Our top priorities include scaling support for both agentic and human driven traffic, improving relevance tooling for teams that build search experiences, and building an API driven interface between our relational data and search indexes. Responsibilities Infrastructure Development and Management Builds and enhances the physical and/or virtual frameworks and tools that are used to manage and maintain the infrastructure. Helps create scalable and efficient systems, automates processes, and improves overall infrastructure performance. Participates in capacity planning and design initiatives. With minimal guidance, assesses infrastructure capacity needs, predicts growth trends, and plans for scalability. Ensures sufficient resources are allocated and infrastructure is properly scaled to handle increasing demands. Expands infrastructure/platform offerings to meet business and developer needs. Site Availability and Performance Acts as the first point of contact for user issues in this area of responsibility. Engages with other teams to diagnose and respond to broad incidents. Solicits information from customers to form an understanding of the nature of the outage and identify potential troubleshooting steps. Ensures the security and compliance of the infrastructure. Collaborates with security teams to implement and maintain robust security measures, conduct vulnerability assessments, and adhere to relevant regulatory standards. Performs timely upgrades to applications/open source software (OSS)/operating systems used for operation of the infrastructure. Establishes appropriate observability and monitoring of infrastructure to proactively identify and address situations, including instructional playbooks. Researches and understands performance gaps or outages. Executes disaster recovery/failure test scenarios. Elasticsearch Infrastructure and Management Identifies areas for optimization, implements innovative solutions, and drives initiatives to enhance system performance, reliability, and scalability. Stays updated with latest technologies, industry trends, and best practices in infrastructure engineering. Implements projects that incorporates these into GitHub platforms. Troubleshooting Understands how to read and assess common errors to form accurate diagnoses and create or direct fixes. Remains on call to handle incidents and outages, investigating and resolving issues promptly to minimize the downtime and impact on services. Contributes to incident management processes, participates in incident report out, identifies root causes, and implements preventive measures to avoid similar incidents in the future. Collaboration Contributes to open source projects. Collaborates with broader open source community to enhance existing tools, develop new features, and share best practices with other infrastructure engineers in the industry. Collaborates with software engineers and other infrastructure teams to troubleshoot issues and optimise infrastructure performance. Understands systems and writes technical design docs to drive shared understanding and alignment across partner teams and stakeholders. Collaborates with various teams to identify cross team opportunities for new features and improvement and able to approach every development task with a "How do I observe the impact of this" mindset and similarly approach Production incidents with a thought to "How could I have seen this earlier". Qualifications Required Qualifications 6+ years technical and/or management experience in infrastructure domains (e.g., container orchestration engineering, platform engineering, database engineering, software engineering, network engineering, systems administration, or related field) o OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 4+ years technical experience in infrastructure domains (e.g., container orchestration engineering, platform engineering, database engineering, software engineering, network engineering, systems administration, or related field) o OR equivalent experience. 1+ year(s) technical leadership experience. 6+ years experience of Building, deploying and maintaining Elasticsearch at scale. 3+ years experience using general purpose programming languages (e.g., Go, Ruby, or Rust). Preferred Qualifications 6+ years experience with Lucene/Apache based search engines such as Elasticsearch, Opensearch or Solr. 6+ years experience with Search Relevance, Scoring and building Search Experiences and with Infrastructure as code, configuration management and associated tooling such as Terraform, Puppet and Ansible. 3 years+ experience in one or more scripting languages (e.g., Bash, Python, or a similar language). 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 150 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!
About GitHub GitHub is the world's leading platform for agentic software development - powered by Copilot to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 180 million developers, including more than 90% of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to collaborate, and more than 77,000 organisations have adopted GitHub Copilot. Locations In this role you can work from Remote, United Kingdom Overview GitHub Copilot is changing how the world builds software-and protecting that experience from abuse is critical to our users, our customers, and the integrity of the platform. We're looking for a data analyst to focus on identifying, investigating, and reporting on abuse, misuse, and policy violations of GitHub Copilot and other AI-powered developer products. In this role, you'll turn Copilot telemetry, account signals, and usage data into clear insights that inform detection, policy, and enforcement decisions. You'll partner closely with Trust & Safety, Product, Engineering, Security, and Legal (CELA) to surface emerging abuse trends and help shape how we respond to them. Responsibilities Detect and investigate Copilot abuse. Analyze telemetry, usage logs, billing/entitlement data, and account signals to identify abuse patterns such as automated or scripted usage, account and credential sharing, token misuse, evasion of usage limits, prompt injection, content-policy violations, and fraudulent or coordinated activity. Build the analyses and tooling that power Trust & Safety decisions. Develop dashboards, reports, and prototype models (e.g., abuse-risk scoring, anomaly detection, investigation views) that help stakeholders distinguish legitimate Copilot usage from abuse and measure the impact of mitigations. Tell the story behind the data. Synthesize complex analyses into clear, actionable insights-through dashboards, written reports, and stakeholder presentations-that influence detection rules, policy updates, and enforcement actions. Improve data quality and coverage. Identify gaps in abuse-relevant data sources, recommend new pipelines or integrations, and partner with Engineering and Data Science to strengthen the signals available for Copilot abuse detection. Anticipate analytical tradeoffs. Evaluate methods and assumptions critically, surface risks like false positives/negatives and unintended impact on legitimate users, and recommend mitigations. Operationalize what works. Turn one-off investigations into reusable, self-service reporting where it makes sense, and help scale recurring abuse-monitoring capabilities. Collaborate across the company. Work with Trust & Safety, Copilot Product, Anti-Abuse Engineering, Security, Data Science, and CELA to align on data definitions, abuse taxonomies, and shared standards. Handle sensitive data responsibly. Apply data privacy, governance, and ethical handling practices to Copilot prompt, completion, and user-activity data, and ensure work goes through appropriate CELA review. Mentor and influence. Share domain expertise with peers, coach less experienced analysts, and present findings to senior Copilot, Trust & Safety, and Security leadership. Qualifications Required Qualifications 5+ years experience in data analysis and reporting, data science, business intelligence, or business and financial analysis or Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Analytics, Data Science, Engineering, Computer Science, Business, Economics or related field and 3+ years experience in data analysis and reporting, data science, business intelligence, or business and financial analysis or equivalent experience. Preferred Qualifications 7+ years of relevant experience, or a Bachelor's/Master's degree in a related field with 5+/3+ years of experience respectively 1+ year of experience with SQL, Python, Power BI, or comparable data analytics tools 2+ years of consulting experience Experience analyzing abuse, fraud, or Trust & Safety signals on a large-scale online platform-ideally involving AI/ML products such as GitHub Copilot or similar AI developer tools Familiarity with common abuse patterns on developer platforms (automated/scripted usage, account and credential sharing, evasion of usage limits, prompt injection, content-policy violations) Experience partnering with Trust & Safety, Anti-Abuse, Security, and Legal teams on sensitive investigations Skills You'll Use Analytics & Storytelling: Data analysis, data modeling, data visualization, data storytelling, statistics, quality reviews Trust & Safety: Abuse and anomaly detection, behavioral analytics and pattern recognition, investigative analysis, Trust & Safety analytics Technical: SQL, Python, big data, database querying, automation, data integration, data cleaning Collaboration & Influence: Technical communication, consulting, influencing without authority, cross-functional partnership Judgment: Decision-making, problem solving, operational excellence, compliance and data governance 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 150 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!
05/07/2026
Full time
About GitHub GitHub is the world's leading platform for agentic software development - powered by Copilot to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 180 million developers, including more than 90% of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to collaborate, and more than 77,000 organisations have adopted GitHub Copilot. Locations In this role you can work from Remote, United Kingdom Overview GitHub Copilot is changing how the world builds software-and protecting that experience from abuse is critical to our users, our customers, and the integrity of the platform. We're looking for a data analyst to focus on identifying, investigating, and reporting on abuse, misuse, and policy violations of GitHub Copilot and other AI-powered developer products. In this role, you'll turn Copilot telemetry, account signals, and usage data into clear insights that inform detection, policy, and enforcement decisions. You'll partner closely with Trust & Safety, Product, Engineering, Security, and Legal (CELA) to surface emerging abuse trends and help shape how we respond to them. Responsibilities Detect and investigate Copilot abuse. Analyze telemetry, usage logs, billing/entitlement data, and account signals to identify abuse patterns such as automated or scripted usage, account and credential sharing, token misuse, evasion of usage limits, prompt injection, content-policy violations, and fraudulent or coordinated activity. Build the analyses and tooling that power Trust & Safety decisions. Develop dashboards, reports, and prototype models (e.g., abuse-risk scoring, anomaly detection, investigation views) that help stakeholders distinguish legitimate Copilot usage from abuse and measure the impact of mitigations. Tell the story behind the data. Synthesize complex analyses into clear, actionable insights-through dashboards, written reports, and stakeholder presentations-that influence detection rules, policy updates, and enforcement actions. Improve data quality and coverage. Identify gaps in abuse-relevant data sources, recommend new pipelines or integrations, and partner with Engineering and Data Science to strengthen the signals available for Copilot abuse detection. Anticipate analytical tradeoffs. Evaluate methods and assumptions critically, surface risks like false positives/negatives and unintended impact on legitimate users, and recommend mitigations. Operationalize what works. Turn one-off investigations into reusable, self-service reporting where it makes sense, and help scale recurring abuse-monitoring capabilities. Collaborate across the company. Work with Trust & Safety, Copilot Product, Anti-Abuse Engineering, Security, Data Science, and CELA to align on data definitions, abuse taxonomies, and shared standards. Handle sensitive data responsibly. Apply data privacy, governance, and ethical handling practices to Copilot prompt, completion, and user-activity data, and ensure work goes through appropriate CELA review. Mentor and influence. Share domain expertise with peers, coach less experienced analysts, and present findings to senior Copilot, Trust & Safety, and Security leadership. Qualifications Required Qualifications 5+ years experience in data analysis and reporting, data science, business intelligence, or business and financial analysis or Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Analytics, Data Science, Engineering, Computer Science, Business, Economics or related field and 3+ years experience in data analysis and reporting, data science, business intelligence, or business and financial analysis or equivalent experience. Preferred Qualifications 7+ years of relevant experience, or a Bachelor's/Master's degree in a related field with 5+/3+ years of experience respectively 1+ year of experience with SQL, Python, Power BI, or comparable data analytics tools 2+ years of consulting experience Experience analyzing abuse, fraud, or Trust & Safety signals on a large-scale online platform-ideally involving AI/ML products such as GitHub Copilot or similar AI developer tools Familiarity with common abuse patterns on developer platforms (automated/scripted usage, account and credential sharing, evasion of usage limits, prompt injection, content-policy violations) Experience partnering with Trust & Safety, Anti-Abuse, Security, and Legal teams on sensitive investigations Skills You'll Use Analytics & Storytelling: Data analysis, data modeling, data visualization, data storytelling, statistics, quality reviews Trust & Safety: Abuse and anomaly detection, behavioral analytics and pattern recognition, investigative analysis, Trust & Safety analytics Technical: SQL, Python, big data, database querying, automation, data integration, data cleaning Collaboration & Influence: Technical communication, consulting, influencing without authority, cross-functional partnership Judgment: Decision-making, problem solving, operational excellence, compliance and data governance 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 150 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!
GitHub is looking for an experienced data analyst to join their team remotely from the United Kingdom. In this role, you will investigate and report on abuse of GitHub Copilot, collaborating with various departments to identify and analyze patterns of misuse. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in data analysis, proficiency in SQL and Python, and the ability to convey complex findings clearly. GitHub values diversity and promotes a supportive work culture.
05/07/2026
Full time
GitHub is looking for an experienced data analyst to join their team remotely from the United Kingdom. In this role, you will investigate and report on abuse of GitHub Copilot, collaborating with various departments to identify and analyze patterns of misuse. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in data analysis, proficiency in SQL and Python, and the ability to convey complex findings clearly. GitHub values diversity and promotes a supportive work culture.
GitHub is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to develop and scale Blackbird, their code search engine, primarily for AI-based features. This remote role involves designing and implementing APIs, technical leadership, and maintaining executional excellence across teams. Candidates should have strong experience in software engineering with proficiency in languages including C, C++, and Python, as well as leadership capabilities. Join GitHub to impact millions of developers worldwide.
02/07/2026
Full time
GitHub is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to develop and scale Blackbird, their code search engine, primarily for AI-based features. This remote role involves designing and implementing APIs, technical leadership, and maintaining executional excellence across teams. Candidates should have strong experience in software engineering with proficiency in languages including C, C++, and Python, as well as leadership capabilities. Join GitHub to impact millions of developers worldwide.
Locations In this role you can work from Remote, United Kingdom Overview GitHub is shaping the future of software development in the age of AI agents - and search is at the heart of it. As GitHub's lexical and semantic code search engine, Blackbird powers context retrieval for business critical experiences across the platform and our Copilot products, including Cloud Agent, Code Review, Copilot CLI, and VS Code. We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to help develop, scale, operate and extend Blackbird, including integrating with AI Agents and developing new AI powered software development workflows. You will be part of our Copilot Agents organization, positively impacting millions of software developers and AI agents worldwide who build everything from open source to global enterprises. As a software engineer at GitHub, you will design, prototype, implement, ship and support highly performant and globally scalable code search technology with your team. Responsibilities Design, develop, test and ship high quality technical solutions that scale across multiple GitHub services and become intimately familiar with the systems you build and take pride in writing maintainable code. Provide technical leadership, mentorship, pairing opportunities, and code reviews to encourage the growth of others; support teams in producing extensible and maintainable code, ensuring integration with downstream dependencies and adherence to quality standards. Help cultivate an environment where team members are empowered and demonstrate a strong sense of ownership and belonging. Own and advocate for the health and quality of the systems that the team builds, including participating in on call for first responder rotations and live incidents. Write architecture briefs and proposals and carry out code experiments. Design and implement APIs to facilitate seamless integration between software components. Maintain executional and operational excellence within and potentially across teams/organizations. Apply debugging tools and telemetry to verify assumptions, proactively resolve issues, and optimize code performance and maintainability. Drive and support technical roadmap that aligns with product goals, ensuring that engineering efforts are strategically prioritized and incorporating the adoption of new technologies and methodologies where applicable. Work with the team to understand technical constraints, and develop, communicate, and track against realistic plans to consistently ship products, features, and bug fixes. Qualifications Required Qualifications: 9+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python OR Associate's Degree in a related field AND 8+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software 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 in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python OR Master's Degree in a related field AND 5+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python OR Doctorate in a related field AND 3+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python OR equivalent experience. Preferred Qualifications: Experience building or operating web-scale search, information retrieval, or context retrieval systems. Expertise with systems programming languages - ideally Rust. Experience designing or integrating AI/ML powered features into production systems. 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!
02/07/2026
Full time
Locations In this role you can work from Remote, United Kingdom Overview GitHub is shaping the future of software development in the age of AI agents - and search is at the heart of it. As GitHub's lexical and semantic code search engine, Blackbird powers context retrieval for business critical experiences across the platform and our Copilot products, including Cloud Agent, Code Review, Copilot CLI, and VS Code. We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to help develop, scale, operate and extend Blackbird, including integrating with AI Agents and developing new AI powered software development workflows. You will be part of our Copilot Agents organization, positively impacting millions of software developers and AI agents worldwide who build everything from open source to global enterprises. As a software engineer at GitHub, you will design, prototype, implement, ship and support highly performant and globally scalable code search technology with your team. Responsibilities Design, develop, test and ship high quality technical solutions that scale across multiple GitHub services and become intimately familiar with the systems you build and take pride in writing maintainable code. Provide technical leadership, mentorship, pairing opportunities, and code reviews to encourage the growth of others; support teams in producing extensible and maintainable code, ensuring integration with downstream dependencies and adherence to quality standards. Help cultivate an environment where team members are empowered and demonstrate a strong sense of ownership and belonging. Own and advocate for the health and quality of the systems that the team builds, including participating in on call for first responder rotations and live incidents. Write architecture briefs and proposals and carry out code experiments. Design and implement APIs to facilitate seamless integration between software components. Maintain executional and operational excellence within and potentially across teams/organizations. Apply debugging tools and telemetry to verify assumptions, proactively resolve issues, and optimize code performance and maintainability. Drive and support technical roadmap that aligns with product goals, ensuring that engineering efforts are strategically prioritized and incorporating the adoption of new technologies and methodologies where applicable. Work with the team to understand technical constraints, and develop, communicate, and track against realistic plans to consistently ship products, features, and bug fixes. Qualifications Required Qualifications: 9+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python OR Associate's Degree in a related field AND 8+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software 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 in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python OR Master's Degree in a related field AND 5+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python OR Doctorate in a related field AND 3+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python OR equivalent experience. Preferred Qualifications: Experience building or operating web-scale search, information retrieval, or context retrieval systems. Expertise with systems programming languages - ideally Rust. Experience designing or integrating AI/ML powered features into production systems. 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!
GitHub is seeking a senior search and data focused engineer to join the Elasticsearch team. This role involves optimizing large-scale Elasticsearch clusters and building API-driven interfaces. Responsibilities include infrastructure management, ensuring system performance, and collaborating on open-source projects with diverse teams. Applicants should have 6+ years in infrastructure domains, technical leadership experience, and familiarity with programming languages. This position offers remote work opportunities and a commitment to diversity and inclusion within the workplace.
18/06/2026
Full time
GitHub is seeking a senior search and data focused engineer to join the Elasticsearch team. This role involves optimizing large-scale Elasticsearch clusters and building API-driven interfaces. Responsibilities include infrastructure management, ensuring system performance, and collaborating on open-source projects with diverse teams. Applicants should have 6+ years in infrastructure domains, technical leadership experience, and familiarity with programming languages. This position offers remote work opportunities and a commitment to diversity and inclusion within the workplace.