Senior Software Engineer Code Scanning
Company: GitHub
Location: United States (Remote)
Salary: $124,000 - $329,200 a year
Type: Full-time
Remote: Yes
Posted: 2026-04-28
About this role
- United States
- Engineering
- Experienced Professional
- Individual Contributor
- Yes
- 5339
- 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 the home for software development, where developers collaborate to build the world’s leading AI-powered developer platform.
In the GitHub Code Scanning team, we are passionate about making the world’s software - both Open Source and Enterprise - secure and high quality. We believe that the best way to accomplish this is to detect security and quality issues early in the development process, and actively facilitate their remediation as part of the developer workflow.
Our team develops and operates the Code Scanning and Code Quality products that are part of GitHub’s Code Security offering. We use world-class static analysis research and technology to deeply analyze code, enabling the early detection of security vulnerabilities and other bugs that testing and day-to-day use have missed. This role will be involved in the design, rollout and support of highly performant, highly scalable, and highly available services to make found-means-fixed a reality leveraging the power of agentic AI.
Come join our engineering team and help design, develop, and scale GitHub's Code Scanning feature. You'll be working in a full-stack agile engineering team that's part of the larger Code Scanning group working in Security Products. You'll work with and learn from Senior and Staff engineers as well as influence team and product direction. In addition, we support and reward spending time on improving diversity, inclusio...