Senior Software Engineer
GitHub - United Kingdom
Posted Jan 21, 2026
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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
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.
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About this role
Senior Software Engineer United Kingdom 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 Kingdom Overview As a Senior Software Engineer on the Issues Platform team at GitHub, you will enhance the collaboration experience by working closely with a community of engineers and designers on a distributed, diverse and passionate team delivering the services that millions of developers depend on. In this role you will design, prototype, implement, ship and support highly performant systems with your team. The Issues Platform team is a subteam of the broader GitHub Issues team within the Core Productivity engineering organization. Our core strategy is to invest in making Issues a reliable, fast and flexible solution that scales with the growth of our user base. We are a platform team, which means our customers are both the millions of developers who use GitHub Issues daily and the internal product teams who build features on top of our platform. We measure our success by service level objectives, the ability of partner teams to iterate rapidly on new features, and customer feedback on reliability and performance. Our work is organized around three pillars: Reliability (ensuring GitHub Issues is always available and resilient), Scalability (building extensible architecture and
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