{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"44975b4aba000c6a3cfd91f9","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/44975b4aba000c6a3cfd91f9","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/44975b4aba000c6a3cfd91f9","title":"Senior Software Engineer,Billing","description":"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.\nLocations: In this role you can work from Remote, United States\nOverview:\nGitHub's Billing team builds and maintains the systems behind how millions of developers and organizations pay for GitHub. This includes licensing and metered billing infrastructure, granular spend controls, subscription plan management, and accurate financial reporting.\n\nAs part of a platform that supports everything from individual developers to Fortune 500 enterprises, you'll work on systems that process transactions at scale, integrate with broader commerce infrastructure, and directly impact GitHub's revenue and trust. It's a space where engineering decisions carry real financial and compliance consequences, and where you'll build deep expertise in a domain that's increasingly valuable across the industry.\n\nWe're a remote-first, distributed team looking for a seasoned engineer who brings strong technical judgment and is still genuinely curious about learning new domains. You don't need to be a payments expert, but you should be excited about working on systems that demand precision and rigor, and about enabling customers to understand and scale their usage of GitHub.\nResponsibilities:\nOwn and evolve a billing system that serves millions of GitHub users, driving architectural decisions that balance reliability, scale, and developer velocity.\nWork across the stack, from backend services to APIs to frontend experiences.\nCreate and guide others in 1) developing clear testing plans to assure solution quality, reliability, and performance; 2) defining success metrics; and 3) integrating customer feedback for continuous improvement - all while ensuring system architecture meets security and compliance standards.\nMentor and grow engineers across the team and broader org through pairing, thoughtful feedback, leading by example, and contributing to engineering-wide practices.\nUse AI-assisted development tools like GitHub Copilot to work effectively and help the team figure out where they're most useful.\nCollaborate with and influence cross-functional teams and partner with stakeholders and lead discussions across GitHub and Microsoft on shared technical problems, including design and cross-cutting concerns.\nParticipate in on-call rotations, lead incident response, and drive reliability improvements based on operational learnings.\nOwn and advocate for the health and quality of the systems that the team builds, including participating in on-call for first responder rotations and live incidents.\nQualifications:\nRequired Qualifications:\n6+ 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\nOR Associate’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\nOR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ 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\nOR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 2+ 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\nOR Doctorate in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field\nOR equivalent experience.\nDemonstrated experience designing and operating services on cloud platforms such as Azure, including infrastructure and deployment concerns.\nPreferred Qualifications:\nHands-on experience building and operating Go services at scale in high-traffic production environments.\nExperience with JavaScript and frontend frameworks like React.\nExperience building or operating billing and licensing systems, payment and subscriptions management, budgeting controls, or similarly high-stakes transactional systems.\nFamiliarity with or curiosity about AI-assisted development workflows (GitHub Copilot, LLM-based tooling).\nTrack record of driving technical decisions across teams through RFCs, design docs, and async collaboration in a distributed environment.\nExperience mentoring engineers and raising the quality bar through code review, pairing, and technical leadership.\nCompensation Range: The base salary range for this job is USD $124,000.00 - USD $329,200.00 /Yr.\n\nThese 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.\n\nThis position will be open for a minimum of 3 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.\nGitHub Leadership Principles:\nGitHub values\nCustomer-obsessed\nShip to learn\nGrowth mindset\nOwn the outcome\nBetter together\nDiverse and inclusive\nManager fundamentals\nModel\nCoach\nCare\nLeadership principles\nCreate clarity\nGenerate energy\nDeliver success\nWho 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.\nOur 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.\nJoin us, and let’s change the world, together.\nEEO 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!","company":"Github","rawCompany":"github","city":"Remote","state":"OR","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-08-09T15:05:20.581Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"},{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"},{"code":"15-1251.00","title":"Computer Programmers","slug":"computer-programmers"}],"industries":[{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"},{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Senior Software Engineer,Billing","description":"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.\nLocations: In this role you can work from Remote, United States\nOverview:\nGitHub's Billing team builds and maintains the systems behind how millions of developers and organizations pay for GitHub. This includes licensing and metered billing infrastructure, granular spend controls, subscription plan management, and accurate financial reporting.\n\nAs part of a platform that supports everything from individual developers to Fortune 500 enterprises, you'll work on systems that process transactions at scale, integrate with broader commerce infrastructure, and directly impact GitHub's revenue and trust. It's a space where engineering decisions carry real financial and compliance consequences, and where you'll build deep expertise in a domain that's increasingly valuable across the industry.\n\nWe're a remote-first, distributed team looking for a seasoned engineer who brings strong technical judgment and is still genuinely curious about learning new domains. You don't need to be a payments expert, but you should be excited about working on systems that demand precision and rigor, and about enabling customers to understand and scale their usage of GitHub.\nResponsibilities:\nOwn and evolve a billing system that serves millions of GitHub users, driving architectural decisions that balance reliability, scale, and developer velocity.\nWork across the stack, from backend services to APIs to frontend experiences.\nCreate and guide others in 1) developing clear testing plans to assure solution quality, reliability, and performance; 2) defining success metrics; and 3) integrating customer feedback for continuous improvement - all while ensuring system architecture meets security and compliance standards.\nMentor and grow engineers across the team and broader org through pairing, thoughtful feedback, leading by example, and contributing to engineering-wide practices.\nUse AI-assisted development tools like GitHub Copilot to work effectively and help the team figure out where they're most useful.\nCollaborate with and influence cross-functional teams and partner with stakeholders and lead discussions across GitHub and Microsoft on shared technical problems, including design and cross-cutting concerns.\nParticipate in on-call rotations, lead incident response, and drive reliability improvements based on operational learnings.\nOwn and advocate for the health and quality of the systems that the team builds, including participating in on-call for first responder rotations and live incidents.\nQualifications:\nRequired Qualifications:\n6+ 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\nOR Associate’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\nOR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ 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\nOR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 2+ 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\nOR Doctorate in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field\nOR equivalent experience.\nDemonstrated experience designing and operating services on cloud platforms such as Azure, including infrastructure and deployment concerns.\nPreferred Qualifications:\nHands-on experience building and operating Go services at scale in high-traffic production environments.\nExperience with JavaScript and frontend frameworks like React.\nExperience building or operating billing and licensing systems, payment and subscriptions management, budgeting controls, or similarly high-stakes transactional systems.\nFamiliarity with or curiosity about AI-assisted development workflows (GitHub Copilot, LLM-based tooling).\nTrack record of driving technical decisions across teams through RFCs, design docs, and async collaboration in a distributed environment.\nExperience mentoring engineers and raising the quality bar through code review, pairing, and technical leadership.\nCompensation Range: The base salary range for this job is USD $124,000.00 - USD $329,200.00 /Yr.\n\nThese pay ranges are intended to cover roles based across the United States. 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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.\n\nThis position will be open for a minimum of 3 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.\nGitHub Leadership Principles:\nGitHub values\nCustomer-obsessed\nShip to learn\nGrowth mindset\nOwn the outcome\nBetter together\nDiverse and inclusive\nManager fundamentals\nModel\nCoach\nCare\nLeadership principles\nCreate clarity\nGenerate energy\nDeliver success\nWho 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). 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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!","datePosted":"2026-08-09T15:05:20.581Z","dateModified":"2026-08-09T15:05:20.581Z","hiringOrganization":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Github","sameAs":"https://jobsearcher.com"},"jobLocation":{"@type":"Place","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","addressLocality":"Remote","addressRegion":"OR","addressCountry":"US"}},"identifier":{"@type":"PropertyValue","name":"JobSearcher","value":"44975b4aba000c6a3cfd91f9"},"url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/44975b4aba000c6a3cfd91f9"}}