Staff Software Engineer, Enterprise AI Governance

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.

Locations: In this role you can work from Remote, United States

Overview

GitHub is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the Enterprise AI Governance team. Together with a distributed, diverse and passionate team of engineers and designers, you will build the platforms, services, and controls that help customers securely configure, govern, and operate Copilot experiences at scale. In this role you will design, prototype, implement, ship and support highly performant and inspiring systems with your team.

You will architect and build highly available, secure backend services and APIs that give customers fine-grained control and visibility over how Copilot is deployed across their organizations, from policy enforcement to auditing to configuration management. The ideal candidate has deep experience designing distributed systems that must balance security, compliance, and scale, and enjoys solving problems where trust and governance are first-class product requirements, not afterthoughts.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will lead technical direction across the Enterprise AI Governance team, setting the bar for system design, reliability, and operational excellence. You'll partner closely with product, security, and other Copilot platform teams to ensure governance capabilities scale alongside Copilot's rapid growth, while remaining simple and trustworthy for enterprise customers to adopt.

We are looking for creative problem solvers and diverse thinkers, people who care about culture as well as customers and features. We believe that how we do things is as important as what we do. Big vision, a common purpose, passion f