Staff Software Engineer, Billing

GitHub, Inc.•UNAVAILABLE, UNAVAILABLE

15h•Remote

About The Position

GitHub's Billing team builds and maintains the systems behind how millions of developers and organizations pay for GitHub. This includes payment processing, billing infrastructure, abuse detection, and compliance. As part of a platform that supports everything from individual developers to Fortune 500 enterprises, you'll work on systems that detect and prevent fraud and abuse at scale, protecting GitHub's revenue and the integrity of the platform. It's a space where engineering decisions carry real financial and trust & safety consequences, and where you'll build deep expertise in a domain that's increasingly critical across the industry. We're a remote-first, distributed team looking for a seasoned engineer with experience building solutions in or alongside fraud, abuse, or platform health domains, and the technical judgment to lead high-stakes detection and mitigation work. You'll primarily focus on fraud and abuse mitigation, while flexing into our broader payment and metered billing systems as needed — so curiosity about adjacent domains matters as much as depth in your own.

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.
Demonstrated experience designing and operating services on cloud platforms such as Azure, including infrastructure and deployment concerns.
equivalent experience.

Nice To Haves

Experience integrating with payment processors or marketplace billing platforms (e.g., Stripe, Zuora, Azure Marketplace), with an understanding of how to design invoicing flows that balance pre-payment, billing in arrears, incremental payments, and authorization checks.
Familiarity with fraud and risk tooling — such as Stripe Radar, risk scoring, and trust/reputation tiers and with bot or identity abuse prevention (e.g., DataDome, Arkose, Persona, CAPTCHA) to reduce account abuse, chargebacks, and non-payment risk.
Hands-on experience building and operating Go services at scale in high-traffic production environments.
Experience with JavaScript and frontend frameworks like React.
Track record of driving technical decisions across teams through RFCs, design docs, and async collaboration in a distributed environment.
Experience mentoring engineers and raising the quality bar through code review, pairing, and technical leadership.

Responsibilities

Own and evolve billing and payment systems that serve millions of GitHub users, with a focus on fraud and abuse mitigation, driving architectural decisions that balance reliability, scale, and developer velocity.
Work across the stack, from backend services to APIs to frontend experiences.
Create and guide others in 1) developing clear testing plans to assure solution quality, reliability, and performance; 2) defining success metrics; and 3) integrating customer feedback for continuous improvement — all while ensuring system architecture meets security and compliance standards.
Mentor and grow engineers across the team and broader org through pairing, thoughtful feedback, leading by example, and contributing to engineering-wide practices.
Use AI-assisted development tools like GitHub Copilot to work effectively and help the team figure out where they're most useful.
Collaborate with and influence cross-functional teams and partner with stakeholders and lead discussions across GitHub and Microsoft on shared technical problems, including design and cross-cutting concerns.
Participate in on-call rotations, lead incident response, and drive reliability improvements based on operational learnings.
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.