Principal Software Engineer, Identity & AI Governance

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Salary

$425K-$425K From the posting source

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Market context

U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)

$116,543 U.S. median for this role

Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)

+9.8% - Much faster than average

265% above the BLS role benchmark for software engineering aggregate.

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Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Software Engineering aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

Role

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Engineering From the posting source

Seniority

Staff Plus From the posting source

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Remote From the posting source

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0 days From the posting source

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About this role

Principal Software Engineer, Identity & AI Governance United States 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 seeking a Principal Software Engineer to shape the future of identity and enterprise AI governance across its platform. Identity is a critical foundation for GitHub's agentic AI ecosystem, enabling secure interactions between users, applications, and AI agents. As AI adoption scales, systems must support trust, authorization, delegation, and policy enforcement at a global scale. In this role, you will lead the architecture of Tier-0 identity and governance services powering authentication, authorization, and policy enforcement for GitHub's ecosystem. These systems must operate with the highest standards of security, reliability, and scalability, serving billions of requests daily. You will partner across Security, Platform, AI, and Product teams to define strategy, drive architecture, and build the identity and governance control plane for GitHub's AI-powered future. Responsibilities Lead and influence design discussions for the overall system architecture of complex products and solutions, ensuring they meet security and compliance requirements. Establish and mentor others in best practices for testing and assuring the quality of solutions, defining success metrics, and producing maintainable code integrated with downstream dependencies. Provide technical leadership during code reviews to

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