Staff Software Engineer, Copilot Agents

About this role

• United States
• Engineering
• Experienced Professional
• Individual Contributor
• Yes
• 5386
• 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

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Copilot Agents team at GitHub, you will help shape the future of agentic software development. Working at the forefront of AI-powered coding, you’ll partner with engineers, researchers, and designers to deliver experiences that millions of developers rely on every day.

The Copilot Agents team builds GitHub’s core platform for agentic development, including the Copilot CLI, SDK, and agent harness; Copilot Cloud Agents and Chat; Copilot Context services such as Memory and Semantic Search; and client experiences across Web, Mobile, and Desktop. In this role, you’ll work across these layers to unlock dramatic improvements in developer and organizational productivity through agentic capabilities spanning the software development lifecycle.

You will design, build, and ship performant, reliable, and inspiring agent experiences—from issue-to-PR coding agents and asynchronous task execution to multi-step tool use, sandboxed execution, and integrated reviewer/agent collaboration loops. You’ll work across clients, services, and platforms to deliver cohesive, high-quality developer experiences, while helping expand GitHub’s platform to support the agentic SDLC.

We’re looking for creative problem solvers who care deeply about both culture and customers. You bring experience building complex systems—ideally agentic or AI-powered—and a passion for developer tools and platforms. You thri...