Product Security Engineer III

About this role

• United States
• Security
• Experienced Professional
• Individual Contributor
• Yes
• 5327
• Full Time

## Job Description

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 transforming how the world builds secure software, and we are looking for a Product Security Engineer III to join our Product Security Engineering team. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on building internal security platforms, tooling, and automation that protect GitHub's products at scale.

You will design, build, and maintain the systems that make GitHub's security program run: static analysis pipelines, agentic security tooling, supply chain defenses, and developer-integrated security controls. The ideal candidate is a strong software engineer who is passionate about application security and wants to solve security problems through code. You will partner closely with product and engineering teams to ship security improvements that scale with the organization.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain security tooling and automation, including static analysis pipelines, secret scanning workflows, and dependency analysis systems.
• Contribute to scalable solutions that reduce recurring vulnerability patterns, focusing on preventing classes of vulnerabilities rather than addressing individual instances.
• Build and improve agentic security tooling for automated triage, assessment, and remediation of security findings.
• Develop security libraries, CI/CD integrations, and developer-facing tools that make the secure path the default path for engineering teams.
• Contribut...