Senior Software Engineer

As Senior Software Engineer on the Code Scanning Language Coverage team, you help broaden Code Scanning’s language support and strengthen its AI-powered capabilities. You collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams to deliver scalable, cross-language solutions that improve security and code quality. You will influence product direction, engage with enterprise and open-source users, and help shape a culture of candor and continuous excellence. This role offers high impact across security, tooling, and AI-driven code analysis at GitHub.

• remote-first
• competitive pay
• generous learning and growth opportunities
• excellent benefits

• Maintain and expand language coverage by adding new languages and updates to language standards
• Partner with Product to scale capabilities and reduce long-term maintenance costs
• Unify technology stack and analysis capabilities across languages to enable AI-powered detection
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to deliver high-quality, reliable features
• Engage with internal and external users to drive success and feedback, influencing culture and processes

• 6+ years of software engineering experience with production software in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python
• OR Associate’s Degree and 5+ years in software engineering with the same language proficiency
• OR Bachelor’s degree and 4+ years in software engineering with the same language proficiency
• OR Master’s degree and 2+ years in software engineering with the same language proficiency
• OR Doctorate or equivalent experience

• Collaboration across cross-functional teams
• Strong communication and stakeholder management
• Continuous learning and self-improvement
• C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, Python
• Software security, DevOps, CI, orchestration (e.g., Temporal.io)
• AI/ML applied to code and large language models (LLMs) in code understanding