Senior Software Engineer, Copilot Agents

About this role

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 Kingdom


Overview
GitHub is the home for software development, where we collaborate to build the world's leading AI-powered developer platform.


In the Copilot Agents organization at GitHub, we are passionate about ensuring the security and quality of the world’s software - from open source to the enterprise, written by humans and by AI tools. We believe that the best way to secure and improve the quality of software is to detect actionable issues early in the development process, and actively facilitate their remediation as part of the developer workflow.


Our team develops detection and remediation engines that power several GitHub products used by hundreds of thousands of developers and projects every day:

• Copilot Code Review agent is GitHub LLM-powered code review engine which provides feedback for immense volumes of code changes daily helping developers fix bugs and improve the quality of their code, leading to faster time to merge.
• Copilot Autofix is GitHub's LLM-powered remediation engine that produces high-quality fix suggestions for security or quality findings, empowering developers to fix them as soon as they are found or burn down the debt already existing in their codebase. It is used as the remediation engine within the GitHub Code Security, GitHub Advanced Security, and Copilot code review products.
• CodeQL is GitHub's semantic code analysis engine that uses world-class static analysis research and technology to deeply analyze code, enabling the early detection of security vulnerabilities and correctness errors in software. CodeQL s...