{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"f0238c8b43d7092cc6faa605","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/f0238c8b43d7092cc6faa605","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/f0238c8b43d7092cc6faa605","title":"Staff Production Engineer","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 is the home for software development, helping millions of developers and organizations build, ship, and operate software together. As software development becomes increasingly AI-assisted, the reliability, scalability, and operability of our platform have never been more important.\n\nWe're building a new Production Engineering organization to help raise the operational bar across GitHub. Production Engineers are software engineers who embed with product and infrastructure teams to improve reliability, performance, scalability, and developer productivity through software, automation, and operational excellence.\nResponsibilities:\nIn this role, you will:\nEmbed with engineering teams to improve the reliability, scalability, and operability of GitHub's production systems.\nOwn complex production problems end-to-end, from debugging live incidents to designing long-term engineering solutions.\nDesign, build, and operate software and infrastructure that improves how GitHub runs in production.\nPartner with product and infrastructure teams to improve observability, capacity planning, performance, resiliency, and operational readiness.\nWrite and review production-quality code, automate operational workflows, and eliminate repetitive manual work.\nParticipate in incident response and help drive learning through incident reviews and follow-up engineering investments.\nInfluence technical direction across teams by establishing engineering practices that improve operational excellence at scale.\nMentor engineers and help build Production Engineering as a technical discipline within GitHub.\nQualifications:\nMinimum Qualifications\n9+ 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 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,\nOR 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,\nOR 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,\nOR 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,\nOR equivalent experience.\nExperience designing, operating, and debugging large-scale distributed systems, with a proven ability to drive improvements in high availability, automation, observability, and overall system reliability.\nStrong software engineering experience in one or more modern programming languages such as Go, Rust, C++, Java, Python, or C#.\nExperience with Linux, networking fundamentals, and systems performance.\nDemonstrated ability to influence technical direction across teams without direct authority.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience operating services at scale.\nExperience with Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, service networking, databases, or distributed storage systems.\nExperience leading incident response and driving operational improvements across organizations.\nExperience using AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering productivity and software quality.\nExperience building engineering practices that improve reliability, operational excellence, or developer productivity across multiple teams.\nCompensation Range: The base salary range for this job is USD $140,400.00 - USD $372,300.00 /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":"2026-08-05T15:13:19.566Z","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":"Staff Production Engineer","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 is the home for software development, helping millions of developers and organizations build, ship, and operate software together. As software development becomes increasingly AI-assisted, the reliability, scalability, and operability of our platform have never been more important.\n\nWe're building a new Production Engineering organization to help raise the operational bar across GitHub. Production Engineers are software engineers who embed with product and infrastructure teams to improve reliability, performance, scalability, and developer productivity through software, automation, and operational excellence.\nResponsibilities:\nIn this role, you will:\nEmbed with engineering teams to improve the reliability, scalability, and operability of GitHub's production systems.\nOwn complex production problems end-to-end, from debugging live incidents to designing long-term engineering solutions.\nDesign, build, and operate software and infrastructure that improves how GitHub runs in production.\nPartner with product and infrastructure teams to improve observability, capacity planning, performance, resiliency, and operational readiness.\nWrite and review production-quality code, automate operational workflows, and eliminate repetitive manual work.\nParticipate in incident response and help drive learning through incident reviews and follow-up engineering investments.\nInfluence technical direction across teams by establishing engineering practices that improve operational excellence at scale.\nMentor engineers and help build Production Engineering as a technical discipline within GitHub.\nQualifications:\nMinimum Qualifications\n9+ 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 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,\nOR 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,\nOR 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,\nOR 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,\nOR equivalent experience.\nExperience designing, operating, and debugging large-scale distributed systems, with a proven ability to drive improvements in high availability, automation, observability, and overall system reliability.\nStrong software engineering experience in one or more modern programming languages such as Go, Rust, C++, Java, Python, or C#.\nExperience with Linux, networking fundamentals, and systems performance.\nDemonstrated ability to influence technical direction across teams without direct authority.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience operating services at scale.\nExperience with Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, service networking, databases, or distributed storage systems.\nExperience leading incident response and driving operational improvements across organizations.\nExperience using AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering productivity and software quality.\nExperience building engineering practices that improve reliability, operational excellence, or developer productivity across multiple teams.\nCompensation Range: The base salary range for this job is USD $140,400.00 - USD $372,300.00 /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!","datePosted":"2026-08-05T15:13:19.566Z","dateModified":"2026-08-05T15:13:19.566Z","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":"f0238c8b43d7092cc6faa605"},"url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/f0238c8b43d7092cc6faa605"}}