Staff Software Engineer, Code Scanning

GitHub

📍 , , United Kingdom, , , United Kingdom, United-Kingdom

Full-time IT & Technology Posted February 19, 2026

Job Description

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

GitHub is the home for software development, where developers collaborate to build the world’s leading AI-powered developer platform.

In the GitHub Code Scanning team, we are passionate about making the world’s software - both Open Source and Enterprise - secure and high quality. We believe that the best way to accomplish this is to detect security and quality issues early in the development process, and actively facilitate their remediation as part of the developer workflow.

Our team develops and operates the Code Scanning and...