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Locations In this role you can work from Remote, United States
Overview GitHub is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join the DX team and help shape the future of our Engineering organization. In this critical leadership position, you’ll drive system architecture, inspire and coach engineering teams, and deliver innovative solutions that make a real impact.
We’re looking for someone with deep expertise in building and tuning scalable, high-performance systems—someone who thrives on optimizing high-throughput services at scale. You have a proven track record of solving complex technical challenges with creativity and pragmatism, and you excel in highly collaborative, cross-functional environments.
In DX, our mission is to empower GitHub developers to do their best work while ensuring our platforms are stable, secure, and reliable in an ever-evolving ecosystem. As a Principal Software Engineer, you’ll work alongside a globally distributed team of talented engineers and managers to enhance and scale our products, delivering an exceptional experience to our diverse and growing customer base.
You’ll lead by example—both through your own technical contributions and by mentoring others. You’ll guide technical strategy, influence architectural decisions, and drive performance optimization across teams. Our culture is built on developer empathy, transparency, and inclusive collaboration. Here, curiosity and a drive for impact are at the heart of everything we do.
Join us to help shape the future of software development and make a difference for millions of developers around the world.
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Compensation Range The base salary range for this job is USD $160,200.00 - USD $425,000.00 /Yr.
These 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.
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Who 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.
Our 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.
Join us, and let’s change the world, together.
EEO 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!
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