Full-Time
Staff Software Engineer
API Gateway Team
Updated on 8/1/2026
GitHub
5,001-10,000 employees
Code hosting, collaboration, and enterprise tools
Compensation Overview
$140.4k - $372.3k/yr
Remote in USA
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- At least 9 years of experience in software engineering, computer science, or a related technical discipline, with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software in programming languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python; alternatively, an Associate’s Degree with at least 8 years of experience, a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field with at least 7 years of experience, a Master’s Degree with at least 5 years of experience, or a Doctorate with at least 3 years of experience; equivalent experience is also accepted.
- At least 4 years of experience building and supporting large, high-traffic applications at scale within platform or infrastructure domains, including cloud-native workloads in Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud.
- At least 3 years of experience leading cross-team technical initiatives, authoring architectural decision records, driving adoption across multiple engineering groups, and mentoring engineers.
- Define the multi-year technical strategy and own the system architecture for the API Gateway and traffic management at GitHub, translating long-term vision into executable milestones across multiple teams.
- Author and drive architectural decisions, including EDRs and ADRs, that become defaults adopted across multiple engineering groups, and lead critical design reviews that resolve disagreements through technical authority.
- Lead complex, cross-group reliability and availability efforts, reducing incident volume, improving on-call effectiveness, and designing telemetry that prevents systemic outages before they manifest.
- Design and implement scalable, reliable, and performant solutions for rate-limiting, routing, and global traffic management at planetary scale; write and review code primarily in Go and Ruby on Rails.
- Establish engineering standards and best practices for traffic management, API design, and AI-assisted engineering patterns that are adopted across multiple groups at GitHub.
- Mentor engineers across product lines, act as a primary technical point of contact for leadership, and participate in the on-call rotation.
- Deep, hands-on experience with HAProxy, Envoy, NGINX, or comparable open source load balancers and proxies at scale.
- Experience architecting or operating planetary-scale engineering systems, with a track record of driving multi-year reliability or scalability strategies with measurable, organization-wide impact.
- A track record of driving company-wide standards, platforms, or capabilities that change how an engineering organization operates, including leading global incident management strategy and complex cross-team postmortems.
- Experience establishing AI-assisted engineering patterns that improve velocity and quality across teams.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with experience working in a remote, distributed team, and a track record of authoring technical strategy documents that influence leadership decisions.
- At least 2 years of experience maintaining an API Gateway or comparable critical traffic management system in production.
GitHub provides a suite of tools for software development, code hosting, and collaboration. It enables developers to write, review, and manage code through hosted repositories, pull requests, issues, and project boards, with built-in CI/CD and security features. Enterprises can use GitHub Enterprise Cloud or GitHub Enterprise Server for advanced security, compliance controls, and dedicated support, while individual developers and small teams use the free tier to host and review code. A key differentiator is the integration of code hosting, collaboration, security, and DevOps tools in one platform, plus AI-assisted coding with GitHub Copilot, which suggests code snippets and functions to speed up development. The company’s goal is to help developers build software faster and more securely at scale by improving collaboration, speeding up code delivery, and reducing security flaws for organizations of all sizes.
Company Size
5,001-10,000
Company Stage
Acquired
Total Funding
$350M
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Founded
2008
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- GitHub Copilot creates a strong AI upsell across editors and workflows.[17][2]
- Enterprise security and compliance needs support premium subscription growth.[18][20]
- Developer network effects deepen retention across 330M+ repositories.[1][11]
What critics are saying
- Microsoft can bundle GitHub with Copilot and Azure, compressing pricing power.[9][18]
- Competing AI coding tools reduce Copilot’s moat and intensify feature-level competition.[9][12]
- Enterprise customers preferring self-hosting slow migration to higher-margin cloud subscriptions.[18][3]
What makes GitHub unique
- GitHub is the leading AI-powered developer platform with 100M+ users.[1][2]
- It combines code hosting, collaboration, security, and DevOps in one workflow.[2][6]
- GitHub Enterprise serves Fortune 100 teams with cloud and server options.[1][18]
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Benefits
A diverse and inclusive workplace - At GitHub, we think that a diverse company is a strong company, and we work hard to foster a supportive and welcoming workplace. Learn more about our commitment to diversity.
Work happier - Build amazing things with a balance of autonomy and collaborative teamwork. Set your own work schedule and make use of a flexible PTO plan when you need to recharge.
Lead from any location - GitHub is a remote-first company with offices located throughout the US, Europe, and Asia. Whether you live near an office or not, GitHub believes you can do your best work wherever you are. If you work remotely, you will receive a stipend to outfit your home office and receive reoccurring reimbursement refreshes.
Put your health and family first - You’ll enjoy 100% coverage of health insurance premiums across our medical, dental, and vision plan offerings, including coverage for dependents. We also offer five months of paid family leave to all new parents with the option to use it all at once or throughout the baby’s first year.
Find your zen - GitHub provides a monthly wellness stipend designed to cover anything from gym memberships, massage, meditation apps, or any other wellness related expenses.
Invest in your future - At GitHub, you’ll have a stake in the future success of our platform with equity grants. For full-time employees, we offer competitive 401k planning with a 50% company match up to the IRS 402(g) annual limit.
Keep growing - Learn how you learn best. From books to conferences, you’ll get a yearly budget for your individual learning and development goals.
Give back to your community - We believe in sharing our time, resources, and products to contribute to positive social impact. GitHub matches charitable donations up to $15,000 per calendar year. And for each hour (up to 40 hours) of volunteering per year, you will receive $20 to donate to an organization of your choice.
Growth & Insights and Company News
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↓ -2%GitHub has launched Stacked PRs, a new feature in private preview that allows pull requests to be based on previous pull requests to form a stack. Each pull request can be reviewed and merged independently, provided all lower requests are merged first, or the entire stack can be merged together. The feature encourages smaller, more manageable pull requests that are easier to review whilst allowing developers to continue working on dependent code without waiting for reviews. This addresses the common problem of large pull requests with changes across numerous files. Stacked PRs, familiar from systems like Facebook's Phabricator, represents a substantial workflow change for GitHub users. The company has introduced a CLI extension called gh stack to simplify usage, though it remains optional. GitHub also envisions the feature supporting AI-assisted code review and agent workflows.
Microsoft Reporter Aaron Holmes discusses how AI agents are flooding GitHub with 14 times more code than last year, leading to system outages. He explores whether GitHub will be forced to change its pricing model to survive the surge in automated traffic. Read more: https://www.theinformation.com/newsletters/applied-ai/microsofts-github-sees-booming-traffic-outages-ai-agents-flood-platform Subscribe: https://www.theinformation.com/subscribe_youtube The Information’s TITV airs weekdays on YouTube, X and LinkedIn at 10AM PT / 1PM ET. Or check us out wherever you get your podcasts. Follow us: X: https://x.com/theinformation IG: https://www.instagram.com/theinformation/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@titv.theinformation LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/theinformation/
The Linux Foundation has secured $12.5 million in grant funding from Anthropic, Amazon Web Services, GitHub, Google, Google DeepMind, Microsoft and OpenAI to support open source software security. Alpha-Omega and the Open Source Security Foundation will manage the funding. The initiative addresses growing concerns about vulnerabilities in widely used open source components and mounting pressure on volunteer maintainers. AI-driven tools have increased the volume of security reports, including false positives, straining small teams responsible for reviewing and patching issues. The funding will support maintainers with triage and remediation workflows, security audits and embedding security experts into projects. AWS announced an additional $2.5 million investment in Alpha-Omega, which has previously issued over 70 grants totalling more than $20 million.
GitHub has launched a technical preview of agentic workflows, allowing AI agents to run automatically within GitHub Actions as part of its continuous AI concept. The feature was developed by GitHub Next and Microsoft Research following its introduction at last year's Universe event. Agentic workflows are defined in markdown files and triggered by events like new issues or pull requests. The AI agent—which can be GitHub Copilot, Claude Code or OpenAI Codex—performs tasks such as triaging issues, updating documentation and monitoring test coverage based on prompt instructions. The system includes multiple security layers: isolated container execution, read-only repository access, internet firewall restrictions and a Safe Outputs subsystem. GitHub emphasises these workflows complement rather than replace traditional CI/CD pipelines, as they lack the determinism required for core build processes.
Aceiss has launched a new offering on the Microsoft GitHub Marketplace, providing real-time access visibility and automated threat detection across GitHub environments. The platform monitors code repositories, user accounts, bots, agents and third-party applications, offering what the company claims is the only unified, authorisation-aware view of effective access across all GitHub identities. The solution addresses a critical gap in GitHub security, where over 100 million developers and 3 million organisations store sensitive assets including source code and AI models. Most existing tools only analyse static permissions, leaving security teams unable to see how access is actually used in practice. Aceiss automatically inventories GitHub identities, correlates entitlements with real authorisation behaviour, and detects anomalous usage patterns without invasive deployment. The platform enables organisations to gain access visibility within minutes of installation.