Overview:

GitHub is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Copilot API team. This role focuses on building, maintaining, and evolving a robust, scalable, and reliable platform that powers GitHub Copilot and its integrations. You will work on highly available backend services and APIs that support Copilot features, ensuring consistent, performant, and safe access at scale.

The ideal candidate has experience building and operating distributed systems in production and enjoys working close to the details of system behaviour, reliability, and performance. You care about building services that balance latency, cost, and operational excellence, and you take pride in improving the quality and maintainability of the systems you own.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the** Copilot API team**, you will collaborate with a distributed, diverse, and passionate group of engineers and product managers across GitHub and partner teams. The Copilot API platform underpins the reliability and scalability of Copilot features used by developers worldwide. Your work will directly support other engineering teams by enabling seamless integration with Copilot capabilities.

You will contribute through hands-on implementation, thoughtful design decisions, and strong collaboration within your team. You’ll help uphold best practices for system performance and reliability, contribute to technical designs, and identify opportunities to improve the resilience and scalability of Copilot’s core infrastructure. We value developer empathy, transparency, and inclusive collaboration, and we believe curiosity and impact drive great engineering at GitHub.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities-
Design, develop, test and ship high-quality technical solutions that scale across multiple GitHub services.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define 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-

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND demonstrated technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND demonstrated technical engineering experience with 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 technical field AND extended demonstrated technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust or Python

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.