Staff Software Engineer, Enterprise AI Governance

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 GitHub is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the Enterprise AI Governance team. Together with a distributed, diverse and passionate team of engineers and designers, you will build the platforms, services, and controls that help customers securely configure, govern, and operate Copilot experiences at scale. In this role you will design, prototype, implement, ship and support highly performant and inspiring systems with your team.    You will architect and build highly available, secure backend services and APIs that give customers fine-grained control and visibility over how Copilot is deployed across their organizations, from policy enforcement to auditing to configuration management. The ideal candidate has deep experience designing distributed systems that must balance security, compliance, and scale, and enjoys solving problems where trust and governance are first-class product requirements, not afterthoughts.    As a Staff Software Engineer, you will lead technical direction across the Enterprise AI Governance team, setting the bar for system design, reliability, and operational excellence. You'll partner closely with product, security, and other Copilot platform teams to ensure governance capabilities scale alongside Copilot's rapid growth, while remaining simple and trustworthy for enterprise customers to adopt.    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.

Design, develop, test, and ship high-quality technical solutions that scale across GitHub services, staying intimately familiar with the systems you build and taking pride in maintainable code. Provide technical leadership, mentorship, pairing, and code reviews that grow others and help teams produce extensible, maintainable code that integrates cleanly with downstream dependencies and meets quality standards. Own and advocate for the health and quality of the systems the team builds, including participating in on-call and first-responder rotations. Write architecture briefs and proposals, and run code experiments. Design and implement APIs that enable seamless integration between software components. Use CI/CD tools to build automated pipelines for continuous integration and delivery. Collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders, leading discussions on technical solutions, including design and cost tradeoffs. Create and guide others in developing testing plans, defining success metrics, and integrating customer feedback, ensuring quality, reliability, and continuous improvement while meeting security and compliance standards. Maintain executional and operational excellence within and across teams and organizations. Use debugging tools and telemetry to validate assumptions, proactively resolve issues, and optimize code performance and maintainability. Drive and support a technical roadmap aligned with product goals, prioritizing engineering efforts and adopting new technologies and methodologies where applicable.

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,