Staff Software Engineer, Identity Core

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 States Overview As the global home for all developers, GitHub is the complete AI-powered developer platform to build, scale, and deliver secure software. In this role, you will design, prototype, implement, ship, and support highly performant platform services with your team. We are looking for creative problem solvers and diverse thinkers, people who care about culture as well as customers and features. We believe that how we do things is as important as what we do. Big vision, a common purpose, passion for quality, curiosity, dedication, and investment in fun and collaboration are what lead to great results. Great products reflect the teams that build them.     We are seeking a Staff Software engineer to join this team and drive the continued evolution of enterprise-focused services for identity and authorization. In this role, you will play a critical role in shaping the future of the identity platform at GitHub, and you will work directly with a variety of engineer teams and product partners to deliver delightful experiences for our enterprise customers. You will work with your peers to ensure our systems are resilient and scalable.

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. 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.    Collaborate with cross-functional teams and partner with stakeholders and lead discussions for technical solutions, including design and cost considerations.   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/cross-team feedback for continuous improvement - all while ensuring system architecture meets security and compliance standards.   Maintain executional and operational excellence within and potentially across teams/organizations.    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.   Offer and receive feedback to grow yourself and the team.

Required Qualifications: 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