Staff Software Engineer, Planning & Tracking
- Level
- Staff
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- United States
About the role
- Lead technical initiatives and architectural decisions.
- Build and operate highly available services.
- Collaborate across teams to drive improvements.
- Mentor engineers and foster technical growth.
- Work on AI-powered products at scale.
Skills the posting asks for
- JavaScript
- Ruby
- React
- C#
- Go
Summarised from the employer’s posting, which is reproduced in full below.
The employer’s full posting
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.
We are looking for creative problem solvers and diverse thinkers who care about culture as much as customers and technology. We believe that how we work is as important as what we build. Big vision, shared purpose, curiosity, dedication to quality, and investment in collaboration and fun lead to great results. Great products reflect the teams that build them.
Responsibilities
As part of this team, you’ll work on GitHub Issues and Projects and deliver customer value with everything we do.
This job provides an opportunity to:
Required Qualifications
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
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!
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.
We are looking for creative problem solvers and diverse thinkers who care about culture as much as customers and technology. We believe that how we work is as important as what we build. Big vision, shared purpose, curiosity, dedication to quality, and investment in collaboration and fun lead to great results. Great products reflect the teams that build them.
Responsibilities
As part of this team, you’ll work on GitHub Issues and Projects and deliver customer value with everything we do.
This job provides an opportunity to:
- Build experiences that millions of people love and use every day, helping them to be more productive, collaborate more effectively and achieve their goals
- Have a real impact, take on ownership of GitHub.com. Contribute to and improve our code base from day one
- Foster technical growth across the team by researching new approaches, sharing insights, and guiding their practical adoption
- Write architecture briefs and proposals, carry out code experiments, and build prototypes to learn how we can achieve planetary scale with our systems
- Work closely with engineering leadership to guide technical investment and implement technical roadmaps and priorities
- Coordinate with engineering and product leads to define, prioritize, and task projects that help us meet business objectives
- Provide technical leadership, mentorship, pairing opportunities, and code reviews to encourage the growth of others
Required 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 o OR Associate’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.
- 4+ years building and supporting large, high-traffic applications at scale within platform/infrastructure domains, including cloud native workloads in Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud
- 3+ years demonstrated experience leading cross-team technical initiatives — authoring architectural decision records, driving adoption across multiple engineering groups, and mentoring engineers
- Experience designing, operating, and debugging large-scale distributed systems, with a proven ability to drive improvements in high availability, automation, observability, and overall system reliability.
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in modern web stacks (e.g. C#, Go, React, MySQL)
- Builder Mindset: Comfortable operating in ambiguity and fast-moving environments, creating clarity, and balancing long-term platform investments with pragmatic execution.
- You have excellent analytical skills as well as communication skills both verbal and written. We’re a distributed team so we’re extra mindful about communication
- You are a clear and effective communicator, be it when you write code, write emails, or explain complex technical issues to non-technical co-workers
- You are passionate and self-motivated, with a demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced environment
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
- Model
- Coach
- Care
- Create clarity
- Generate energy
- Deliver success
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!