Senior Software Engineer

Locations

In this role you can work from Remote, United Kingdom

Responsibilities

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join one of the distributed software engineering teams responsible for building and expanding code analysis engines and agents at GitHub. In this role you will work in one of the following areas, selected based on your own experience and interests, and the needs of the organization at the time of hiring:

• Code analysis :
  • Maintaining detection support for multiple programming languages, including:
  • building source code extractors that translate code written in each language into data that CodeQL can understand, keeping up with the latest version of each supported language
  • writing and maintaining queries in the CodeQL query language that accurately detect security vulnerabilities and undesirable coding patterns
  • building analysis libraries in the CodeQL query language t...