Software Engineer II, Copilot Client Platform ID-11457

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About GitHub: As the global home for all developers, GitHub is the complete AI-powered developer platform to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 150+ million developers, including more than 90% of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to collaborate and experiment across 420+ million repositories. repositories. With all the collaborative features of GitHub, it has never been easier for individuals and teams to write faster, better code.
Locations: In this role you can work from Remote, United States
Overview:
GitHub helps companies, organizations, and groups of individuals succeed by allowing them to build better software, together. The successful launch of GitHub Copilot in June 2022 has demonstrated the possibilities of AI-assisted software development.
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The Copilot Client Platform Team focuses on building the platform for delivering seamless, high-performance integrations of GitHub Copilot across a range of development environments. Currently, the team supports extensions for popular editors like Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, the JetBrains suite (e.g., IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm), Xcode, Eclipse and Vim/Neovim. By optimizing these integrations, the team ensures that developers worldwide can harness the power of Copilot within their preferred tools.


This role involves close collaboration with Microsoft’s Developer Division (responsible for Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code) and GitHub Next, a research group pioneering the future of software development, where Copilot originated. Operating within a highly distributed and asynchronous communication model, the ideal candidate will thrive in a globally connected team and possess exceptional written communication skills to foster collaboration and build strong working relationships.


Responsibilities:
  • Learn and contribute to the development of new features for the various different Copilot IDE extensions with a focus on the Copilot VS Code/JetBrains extension.
  • Assist in contributing to new IDE plugins that deliver the GitHub Copilot functionality.
  • Collaborate with other parts of the wider Copilot team.
  • Explore new ways of presenting Copilot’s output, collaborating with external IDE teams as needed.
  • Contribute in partnership with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project manager, technical lead) to determine requirements for a feature/scenario.
  • Learn and contribute to processes for the technical solutions of a product/feature within the team's area of responsibility and learn to create proposals by testing design hypotheses and helping to refine code plans under the technical leadership of others.
  • Collaborate with others to create a clear and articulated plan for testing and assuring quality of solutions.
  • Support identification of dependencies during the design for a product feature with oversight.
  • With guidance, learn to create and implement code for a product, service, or feature reusing code as applicable.
  • Learn about and apply knowledge of debugging tools, logs, telemetry, and other methods to proactively flag issues before they occur and reactively flag issues as they occur for product features.
  • Learn to review code and help to review code of others to ensure it meets the team's and GitHub's quality standards


Qualifications:
Required Qualifications:
  • 2+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python
    • OR Associate’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 1+ year(s) experience
    • OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field
    • OR equivalent experience.


Preferred Qualifications:
  • Development experience with TypeScript, Java or Kotlin.
  • Interest in modern AI/machine learning technologies and program synthesis in particular.
  • Interest in developing Integrated Development Environment (IDE) extensions.
  • Interest in developer tooling or program/static analysis, or compilers and compiler construction.


Compensation Range: The base salary range for this job is USD $81,000.00 - USD $214,900.00 /Yr.

These pay ranges are intended to cover roles based across the United States. An individual's base pay depends on various factors including geographical location and review of experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant. At GitHub certain roles are eligible for benefits and additional rewards, including annual bonus and stock. These rewards are allocated based on individual impact in role. In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee's role. GitHub Leadership Principles:

GitHub values

  • Customer-obsessed
  • Ship to learn
  • Growth mindset
  • Own the outcome
  • Better together
  • Diverse and inclusive

Manager fundamentals

  • Model
  • Coach
  • Care

Leadership principles

  • Create clarity
  • Generate energy
  • Deliver success
Who We Are: GitHub is the world’s leading AI-powered developer platform with 150 million developers and counting. We’re also home to the biggest open-source community on earth (and 99% of the world’s software has open-source code in its DNA). Many of the apps and programs you use every day are built on GitHub.
Our teams are dreamers, doers, and pioneers, leading the way in AI, driving humanitarian efforts around the globe, and even sending open source to Mars (and beyond!). At GitHub, our goal is to create the space you need to do your best work. We’re remote-first and offer competitive pay, generous learning and growth opportunities, and excellent benefits to support you, wherever you are—because we know that people flourish when they can work on their own terms.
Join us, and let’s change the world, together.
EEO Statement: GitHub is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We embrace diversity and invite applications from people of all walks of life. We don't discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences. Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you; we're happy to accommodate!
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