Staff Software Engineer, Planning & Tracking

GitHub, Inc.•UNAVAILABLE, UNAVAILABLE

7d•Remote

About The Position

Join us in shaping the future of project planning and tracking on GitHub. Our team enables customers to bring their ideas to life, innovate and collaborate throughout the whole project lifecycle. GitHub Planning and Tracking is a market-leading service to manage and track work alongside the code where it happens. Within GitHub’s ecosystem, Issues and Projects help millions of developers and teams plan, track, and collaborate alongside the code where their work happens. Our team owns the foundational services and infrastructure behind these experiences, ensuring they remain reliable, responsive, and scalable. We solve complex challenges across distributed systems, data storage, APIs, observability, and cloud infrastructure while building the backend capabilities that will unlock deeper Copilot integration across existing and future GitHub Issues and Projects. In this role, you will be a technical leader and multiplier within our distributed team. You will design, prototype, implement, ship, and operate highly available services at scale; uncover and solve foundational performance and reliability challenges; and guide architectural decisions and long-term technical investments. We are looking for a backend-focused engineer who is comfortable collaborating across the stack and has experience building large-scale systems and customer-facing, AI-powered products. We are looking for creative problem solvers and diverse thinkers who care about culture as much as customers and technology. We believe that how we work is as important as what we build. Big vision, shared purpose, curiosity, dedication to quality, and investment in collaboration and fun lead to great results. Great products reflect the teams that build them.

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.
4+ years building and supporting large, high-traffic applications at scale within platform/infrastructure domains, including cloud native workloads in Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud
3+ years demonstrated experience leading cross-team technical initiatives — authoring architectural decision records, driving adoption across multiple engineering groups, and mentoring engineers
Experience designing, operating, and debugging large-scale distributed systems, with a proven ability to drive improvements in high availability, automation, observability, and overall system reliability.

Nice To Haves

5+ years of hands-on experience in modern web stacks (e.g. C#, Go, React, MySQL)
Builder Mindset: Comfortable operating in ambiguity and fast-moving environments, creating clarity, and balancing long-term platform investments with pragmatic execution.
You have excellent analytical skills as well as communication skills both verbal and written. We’re a distributed team so we’re extra mindful about communication
You are a clear and effective communicator, be it when you write code, write emails, or explain complex technical issues to non-technical co-workers
You are passionate and self-motivated, with a demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced environment

Responsibilities

Build experiences that millions of people love and use every day, helping them to be more productive, collaborate more effectively and achieve their goals
Have a real impact, take on ownership of GitHub.com. Contribute to and improve our code base from day one
Foster technical growth across the team by researching new approaches, sharing insights, and guiding their practical adoption
Write architecture briefs and proposals, carry out code experiments, and build prototypes to learn how we can achieve planetary scale with our systems
Work closely with engineering leadership to guide technical investment and implement technical roadmaps and priorities
Coordinate with engineering and product leads to define, prioritize, and task projects that help us meet business objectives
Provide technical leadership, mentorship, pairing opportunities, and code reviews to encourage the growth of others