Senior Software Engineer

About this role

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 Notifications is the connective tissue of the developer workflow — delivering billions of signals every week across web, email, mobile, Slack, and Teams so developers never miss what matters

As we accelerate human-agent collaboration, these communication and coordination pipelines become even more critical. As a Senior Software Engineer on this team, you'll work on distributed systems that operate at massive scale and touch every GitHub user. You'll tackle challenges in event processing, data pipeline reliability, and real-time delivery — building the infrastructure that powers how humans and agents coordinate work

You'll also help shape how this layer evolves to support new collaboration patterns as AI agents become first-class participants in developer workflows. This is a team where reliability is a first-class concern and engineering craft matters deeply. You'll have real ownership from day one, working across a multi-service architecture that includes event processing pipelines, delivery systems, and the notification UIs on github.com

We're looking for someone who brings strong systems thinking, cares about operational excellence, and is excited about building the distributed systems foundation for human-agent collaboration at scale. Responsibilities As part of this team you'll work on Notifications and deliver customer value with everything we do. This job provides an opportunity to: Build and operate distributed systems that deliver billions of notifications weekly, powering how humans and agents coordinate work across every surface Have a real impact, take

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