Staff Software Engineer, Billing

Requirements

• 9+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline
• Demonstrated experience designing and operating services on cloud platforms such as Azure

Nice to Haves

• Hands-on experience building and operating Ruby and/or Go services at scale in high-traffic production environments
• Experience with JavaScript and frontend frameworks like React
• Experience building or operating payments, billing, fraud detection, compliance, or similarly high-stakes transactional systems
• Familiarity with or curiosity about AI-assisted development workflows (GitHub Copilot, LLM-based tooling)
• Track record of driving technical decisions across teams through RFCs, design docs, and async collaboration in a distributed environment
• Experience mentoring engineers and raising the quality bar through code review, pairing, and technical leadership

What You'll Be Doing

• Own and evolve billing and payment systems that serve millions of GitHub users, driving architectural decisions that balance reliability, scale, and developer velocity
• Lead the detection and mitigation of billing abuse, shaping the signals, tooling, and strategies that keep our platform safe
• Mentor and grow engineers across the team and broader org through pairing, thoughtful feedback, leading by example, and contributing to engineering-wide practices
• Collaborate with and influence cross-functional teams and partner with stakeholders and lead discussions across GitHub and Microsoft on shared technical problems, including design and cross-cutting concerns

Perks and Benefits

• Competitive pay
• Generous learning and growth opportunities
• Excellent benefits to support you
• Remote-first work culture
• Opportunity to work with the world's leading AI-powered developer platform