Software Engineer I

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 150+ million developers, including more than 90% of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to collaborate and experiment across 420+ million repositories. 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 has changed the way software is built, and we have a unique opportunity to look further ahead to identify how software development can be faster, safer, easier, and more accessible. We’re looking for a talented and experienced Software Engineer to join us in this mission! 

GitHub Copilot Agent Services owns the platform that expands Copilot’s abilities with powerful AI agents in a rich ecosystem of developer tools and services as part of our industry-leading experiences.

As a Software Engineer on the Copilot Agent Services Team, you will work closely with a distributed, diverse, and passionate team of engineers and product managers with multiple teams across GitHub and Microsoft to improve and maintain our platform that integrators depend on in their software development cycle. Together, we are dedicated to shaping the future of software development by continuously enhancing AI-powered capabilities in GitHub and beyond.

The Copilot team is highly distributed and you will thrive in an environment of remote work and asynchronous communication. You’re expected to have strong written communication skills and be able to develop working relationships with coworkers in locations around the globe. As an engineer at GitHub you’ll always be challenged to solve interesting and novel problems that have real impact on how the world builds software.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test 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.

• Own and advocate for the health and quality of the systems that the team builds, including participating in on-call and first responder rotations

• 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/Minimum Qualifications:

• Experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining 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

  • OR Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field

  • OR equivalent experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with distributed systems at global scale

• Experience working with a remote, distributed team

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Interest or prior experience in modern AI/machine learning technologies, Large Language Models or similar

• Passionate about fostering good API Design practices and processes

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.

Equal Employment Opportunity

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!