Senior Software Engineer - Github Copilot API

GitHub is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Copilot API team. This role focuses on building, maintaining, and evolving a robust, scalable, and reliable platform that powers GitHub Copilot and its integrations. You will work on highly available backend services and APIs that support Copilot features, ensuring consistent, performant, and safe access at scale. The ideal candidate has experience building and operating distributed systems in production and enjoys working close to the details of system behaviour, reliability, and performance. You care about building services that balance latency, cost, and operational excellence, and you take pride in improving the quality and maintainability of the systems you own. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Copilot API team, you will collaborate with a distributed, diverse, and passionate group of engineers and product managers across GitHub and partner teams. The Copilot API platform underpins the reliability and scalability of Copilot features used by developers worldwide. Your work will directly support other engineering teams by enabling seamless integration with Copilot capabilities. You will contribute through hands-on implementation, thoughtful design decisions, and strong collaboration within your team. You’ll help uphold best practices for system performance and reliability, contribute to technical designs, and identify opportunities to improve the resilience and scalability of Copilot’s core infrastructure. We value developer empathy, transparency, and inclusive collaboration, and we believe curiosity and impact drive great engineering at GitHub.