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Overview

GitHub is shaping the future of software development in the age of AI agents — and search is at the heart of it. As GitHub’s lexical and semantic code search engine, Blackbird powers context retrieval for business‑critical experiences across the platform and our Copilot products.

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help develop, scale, operate and extend Blackbird. This role is specifically focused on infrastructure, operations, automation, CI/CD, DX, observability, and security. You’ll be part of our Copilot Agents organization, positively impacting millions of software developers and AI agents around the world.

The idóneo candidate has strong experience with distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and reliability engineering, and the ability to work autonomously, learn quickly, and communicate and set technical direction. You will work within a strong team of staff and principal engineers and collaborate with partner teams across the Copilot Agents organization.

Responsibilities

- Own and advocate for the health and quality of the systems that the team builds, including participating in on‑call and first responder rotations.
- Drive efforts to collect, classify, and analyze data on a range of metrics (e.g., health of the system, where bugs might be occurring).
- Drive the refinement of products through data analytics, and make informed decisions in engineering products through data integration.
- Consider and drive comprehensive application of automation within production and deployment of a product.
- Run code in simulated or other non‑production environments to confirm functionality and error‑free runtime for products.
- Improve development quality, development velocity, and team performance through modeling contributions to improvement of developer tooling.
- Drive efforts to ensure the correct processes are followed to achieve a high degree of security, privacy, safety, and accessibility.
- Create and ensure the presence of visible evidence (e.g., audit logs, system reports, security compliance)



to demonstrate compliance for products.
- Leverage subject‑matter expertise of product features, incorporate service‑health indicators (e.g., SLOs) to prioritize work focused, and partner with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive collaboration on the workgroup’s project plans, release plans, and work items.
- 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.
- Design, develop, test and ship high‑quality technical solutions that scale across multiple GitHub services.

Required Qualifications

- 6+ years experience in Software Engineering or a related technical discipline with proven experience delivering production software coded in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python.
- Associate’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 5+ years experience in Software Engineering or a related technical discipline with proven experience delivering production software coded in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering,



or related field AND 4+ years experience in Software Engineering or a related technical discipline with proven experience delivering production software coded in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python.
- Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 2+ years experience in Software Engineering or a related technical discipline with proven experience delivering production software coded in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python.
- Doctorate in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, or related field.
- Equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications

- Understanding of production system monitoring and observability with skills across network, application, caching, queuing, load‑balancing, storage, and distributed services layers.
- Passionate about fostering good engineering practices and processes with a solid understanding of testing principles and high‑quality software.
- 2+ years experience in systems programming, search index internals, and information retrieval.

Compensation Range

Base salary range: $124,000.00 – $329,200.00 per year, depending on experience and location. Eligible for benefits, annual bonus, stock, and potential sales incentives.

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 do not 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. If you have a disability, please let us know if there is any way we can make the interview process better for you; we’re happy to accommodate.

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