Staff Software Engineer, Planning & Tracking

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 | Remote, United States

Overview

Join us in shaping the future of project planning and tracking on GitHub. Our team enables customers to bring their ideas to life, innovate and collaborate throughout the whole project lifecycle. GitHub Planning and Tracking is a market-leading service to manage and track work alongside the code where it happens.

Learn more about GitHub’s project management tools: https://github.com/features/#features-project-management

Within GitHub’s ecosystem, Issues and Projects help millions of developers and teams plan, track, and collaborate alongside the code where their work happens. Our team owns the foundational services and infrastructure behind these experiences, ensuring they remain reliable, responsive, and scalable. We solve complex challenges across distributed systems, data storage, APIs, observability, and cloud infrastructure while building the backend capabilities that will unlock deeper Copilot integration across existing and future GitHub Issues and Projects.

In this role, you will be a technical leader and multiplier within our distributed team. You will design, prototype, implement, ship, and operate highly available services at scale; uncover and solve foundational performance and reliability challenges; and guide architectural decisions and long-term technical investments. We are looking for a backend-focused engineer who is comfortable collaborating across the stack and has experience building large-scale systems and customer-facing, AI-powered products.

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