{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"d8d0efbaaf6232cad83af384","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/d8d0efbaaf6232cad83af384","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/d8d0efbaaf6232cad83af384","title":"Principal Software Engineer, Front End Web UI Platform","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 Core UX organization owns the frontend platform behind GitHub.com: the architecture, tooling, and standards that let hundreds of engineers ship UI that is fast, accessible, consistent, and reliable. We're looking for a Principal Software Engineer to set technical direction across that platform and raise the ceiling on what the frontend can do for millions of developers.\nThis is a systems role, not a single-team role. You'll work across the concerns that overlap in frontend at scale: performance, accessibility, UX consistency, and availability. Much of the work is evolving a large, actively developed codebase rather than starting from scratch, so success depends as much on migration strategy and cross-team alignment as on architecture. You'll shape paved paths that many teams adopt, not one-off solutions that rely on heroics.\nYou'll partner closely with other Principal and Staff engineers, Engineering Managers, and Product and Design leadership to decide where the platform goes next and to drive that direction to real, shipped outcomes.\nResponsibilities:\nOwn the technical direction for GitHub's web UI platform across performance, accessibility, consistency, and availability, balancing long-term architecture with hands-on execution.\nDrive large cross-team initiatives and migrations, sequencing the work so the platform moves forward without disrupting active product development.\nEstablish patterns, standards, and paved paths for frontend development that lower cognitive load and scale across many teams.\nProduce architecture and design proposals, evaluate tradeoffs honestly, and build alignment across engineering, product, and design.\nMentor and raise the bar for engineers at every level through design review, code review, and pairing.\nRepresent frontend platform priorities to leadership, securing the support and resourcing needed to deliver.\nWhat Success Looks Like in the First 6 Months\nYou've built a deep working understanding of GitHub's frontend systems, infrastructure, and their backend dependencies, and you're using it to make informed, high-leverage decisions.\nYou're leading at least one platform-wide initiative that measurably improves performance, availability, frontend infrastructure, or developer velocity.\nTeams are adopting the patterns and paved paths you've shaped, with less need for direct hand-holding.\nQualifications:\nRequired Qualifications\n11+ 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 10+ 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 or related field AND 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\nOR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, 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\nOR Doctorate 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 equivalent experience.\nPreferred Qualifications\nDeep knowledge of React internals and server-side rendering, with experience modernizing frontend systems in large, multi-team codebases.\nTrack record of improving web performance (Core Web Vitals, interaction latency, bundle size) through systematic, data-driven work.\nExperience leading cross-team frontend migrations and rollouts, managing sequencing, deprecation, and incremental adoption across many engineers.\nStrong command of web platform and accessibility fundamentals (browser APIs, a11y standards, TypeScript, CSS) and how they interact with framework-level abstractions.\nExperience building design systems, shared component libraries, or paved-path tooling that many teams adopt.\nCompensation Range: The base salary range for this job is USD $160,200.00 - USD $425,000.00 /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":"2026-08-05T16:12:45.231Z","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":"15-1254.00","title":"Web Developers","slug":"web-developers"}],"industries":[{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"},{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Principal Software Engineer, Front End Web UI Platform","description":"About GitHub: GitHub is the world’s leading platform for agentic software development — powered by Copilot to build, scale, and deliver secure software. 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You'll shape paved paths that many teams adopt, not one-off solutions that rely on heroics.\nYou'll partner closely with other Principal and Staff engineers, Engineering Managers, and Product and Design leadership to decide where the platform goes next and to drive that direction to real, shipped outcomes.\nResponsibilities:\nOwn the technical direction for GitHub's web UI platform across performance, accessibility, consistency, and availability, balancing long-term architecture with hands-on execution.\nDrive large cross-team initiatives and migrations, sequencing the work so the platform moves forward without disrupting active product development.\nEstablish patterns, standards, and paved paths for frontend development that lower cognitive load and scale across many teams.\nProduce architecture and design proposals, evaluate tradeoffs honestly, and build alignment across engineering, product, and design.\nMentor and raise the bar for engineers at every level through design review, code review, and pairing.\nRepresent frontend platform priorities to leadership, securing the support and resourcing needed to deliver.\nWhat Success Looks Like in the First 6 Months\nYou've built a deep working understanding of GitHub's frontend systems, infrastructure, and their backend dependencies, and you're using it to make informed, high-leverage decisions.\nYou're leading at least one platform-wide initiative that measurably improves performance, availability, frontend infrastructure, or developer velocity.\nTeams are adopting the patterns and paved paths you've shaped, with less need for direct hand-holding.\nQualifications:\nRequired Qualifications\n11+ 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 10+ 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 or related field AND 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\nOR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, 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\nOR Doctorate 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 equivalent experience.\nPreferred Qualifications\nDeep knowledge of React internals and server-side rendering, with experience modernizing frontend systems in large, multi-team codebases.\nTrack record of improving web performance (Core Web Vitals, interaction latency, bundle size) through systematic, data-driven work.\nExperience leading cross-team frontend migrations and rollouts, managing sequencing, deprecation, and incremental adoption across many engineers.\nStrong command of web platform and accessibility fundamentals (browser APIs, a11y standards, TypeScript, CSS) and how they interact with framework-level abstractions.\nExperience building design systems, shared component libraries, or paved-path tooling that many teams adopt.\nCompensation Range: The base salary range for this job is USD $160,200.00 - USD $425,000.00 /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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