Locations

In this role you can work from Remote, United Kingdom

Overview

GitHub is shaping the future of software development in the age of AI agents — and search is at the heart of it. As GitHub's lexical and semantic code search engine, Blackbird powers context retrieval for business‑critical experiences across the platform and our Copilot products, including Cloud Agent, Code Review, Copilot CLI, and VS Code.

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to help develop, scale, operate and extend Blackbird, including integrating with AI Agents and developing new AI‑powered software development workflows. You will be part of our Copilot Agents organization, positively impacting millions of software developers and AI agents worldwide who build everything from open source to global enterprises.

As a software engineer at GitHub, you will design, prototype, implement, ship and support highly performant and globally scalable code se...