Staff Software Engineer

About this role

• United States
• Engineering
• Experienced Professional
• Individual Contributor
• Yes
• 5103
• 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's Core UX organization is responsible for the frontend platform that powers GitHub.com. We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to work on the systems that make it possible for hundreds of engineers to ship accessible, performant, and reliable UI at scale.

This role sits at the intersection of web infrastructure and the React platform. You'll work on the systems that product teams depend on every day: build and bundling infrastructure, server-side rendering, frontend CI/CD, performance observability, and the migration strategies that move a large codebase forward without disrupting active development.

A significant part of the work ahead involves evolving how we serve our web UI. We're actively building toward an architecture where the presentation layer is decoupled from our backend monolith, enabling edge delivery, streaming responses, concurrent data fetching, and a self-serve model for feature teams to ship UI independently. You'll join an effort already in flight and help drive it to completion, contributing across service boundaries, rendering infrastructure, and developer tooling as the work matures.

We're looking for someone who thinks in systems, cares about developer experience as much as user experience, and is comfortable driving large cross-cutting technical initiatives across many teams. You'll partner closely with other Staff and Principal engineers, Engineering Managers, and Produ...