Staff Software Engineer
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
Millions of developers start their day on GitHub — and the frontend platform you build will define the quality, speed, and reliability of that experience. As a Senior Software Engineer on the React Platform team, you will design and evolve the frontend architecture, frameworks, tooling, and performance infrastructure that underpin GitHub's entire web UI — enabling engineering teams across the company to build scalable, accessible, performant, and secure React applications with confidence. You will grow your expertise across large-scale React architecture, client-side performance optimization, and platform-as-a-product thinking. The React Platform team is part of the Core UX org in Core Productivity. We are an enablement-focused platform team — our customers are both the millions of developers who use GitHub every day and the internal engineering teams we accelerate through expert guidance, reusable patterns, and production-ready tooling. We measure our success by web performance benchmarks, developer experience scores, and how quickly product teams can go from idea to production on our platform. We are looking for creative problem solvers and diverse thinkers, people who care about culture as well as customers and features. We believe that how we do things is as important as what we do. Big vision, a common purpose, passion for quality, curiosity, dedication, and investment in fun and collaboration are what lead to great results. Great products reflect the teams that build them.
Responsibilities
Design and evolve frontend frameworks, tooling, and architectural patterns that enable frontend contributors across GitHub to build scalable, accessible, and performant React applications. Improve client-side performance and reliability — identify and resolve latency issues, improve observability, and help establish high standards for the web platform. Design, develop, test and ship high-quality technical solutions. Collaborate with cross-functional and product engineering teams to understand needs, shape platform investments, and implement innovative solutions. Provide technical leadership, mentorship, pairing opportunities, and code reviews to encourage the growth of others. Own and advocate for the health and quality of the systems that the team builds, including participating in on-call and first responder rotations. Write architecture briefs and proposals, carry out code experiments, and build prototypes to learn how we can achieve planetary scale with our systems. Design and implement APIs to facilitate seamless integration between software components. Utilize CI/CD tools to set up automated pipelines for continuous integration and delivery. Become intimately familiar with the systems you build and take pride in writing maintainable code.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications: 9+ years' experience in software engineering, computer science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python ORAssociate’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 8+ years' experience in software engineering, computer science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python OR Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field AND 7+ years' experience in software engineering, computer science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python OR Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years' experience in software engineering, computer science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python OR Doctorate in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years' experience in software engineering, computer science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python, OR equivalent experience. Preferred Qualifications: Strong practical skills in modern web technologies and languages including but not limited to React, TypeScript, Node.js, and GraphQL. Experience building and scaling large React applications in production, including shared frontend platforms, architectural patterns (e.g. data routing, state management), developer tools, or infrastructure that other engineering teams rely on to ship products. Experience with server-side rendering architectures and designing or consuming APIs that serve frontend applications (e.g.,GraphQL, REST, or BFF patterns). Experience with performance optimization and latency reduction in consumer-facing web applications (e.g., code splitting, bundle analysis, Core Web Vitals improvement). Experience with observability and monitoring in production environments — metrics, logging, tracing, or real-user monitoring for client-side applications.
Compensation
Range The base salary range for this job is USD $140,400.00 - USD $372,300.00 /Yr. These pay ranges are intended to cover roles based across the United States. An individual's base pay depends on various factors including geographical location and review of experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant. At GitHub certain roles are eligible for benefits and additional rewards, including annual bonus and stock. These rewards are allocated based on individual impact in role. In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee's role. This position will be open for a minimum of 3 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. GitHub values Customer-obsessed Ship to learn Growth mindset Own the outcome Better together Diverse and inclusive Manager fundamentals Model Coach Care Leadership principles Create clarity Generate energy Deliver success Who We Are GitHub is the world’s leading AI-powered developer platform with 150 million developers and counting. We’re also home to the biggest open-source community on earth (and 99% of the world’s software has open-source code in its DNA). Many of the apps and programs you use every day are built on GitHub. Our teams are dreamers, doers, and pioneers, leading the way in AI, driving humanitarian efforts around the globe, and even sending open source to Mars (and beyond!). At GitHub, our goal is to create the space you need to do your best work. We’re remote-first and offer competitive pay, generous learning and growth opportunities, and excellent benefits to support you, wherever you are—because we know that people flourish when they can work on their own terms. Join us, and let’s change the world, together. EEO Statement GitHub is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We embrace diversity and invite applications from people of all walks of life. We don't discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences. Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you; we're happy to accommodate!