Staff Software Engineer, Planning & Tracking

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 | Remote, United States Overview   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.       Learn more about GitHub’s project management tools:  https://github.com/features/#features-project-management       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.

As part of this  team,   you’ll  work on GitHub Issues and Projects and deliver customer value with everything we do.      This job  provides  an opportunity to:    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    Qualifications 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 o OR Associate’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 8+  yea rs