Senior Partner Engineer

Senior Partner Engineer at 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 over 77,000 organisations have adopted GitHub Copilot.

Locations

In this role, you can work from Remote, United States.

Overview

GitHub is expanding its Product Partnerships team and is looking for a Senior Partner Engineer to enhance its partner ecosystem and product integration efforts. As a Senior Partner Engineer, you will collaborate hands-on with strategic partners, customers, and internal teams to build and enable deep integrations across the developer ecosystem, including GitHub Copilot, MCP, GitHub Copilot SDK, and the Copilot CLI. You will understand and integrate partner business needs, user requirements, and industry insights to support scalable partner integrations and influence GitHub’s product roadmap by translating partner requirements into platform-level opportunities.

This role operates at the intersection of software engineering, product strategy, and partner collaboration, serving as a technical force multiplier. You will build reference implementations, influence product direction, and help partners ship production-grade integrations that developers appreciate. The ideal candidate is a highly autonomous technical individual who drives execution, solves problems confidently, shapes integrated solutions, and feeds partner and customer insights back into GitHub’s product and partnership strategies for long-term ecosystem success.

At the Senior level, Partner Engineers work independently to generate momentum across multiple partners, influence external integrations and internal product direction, and drive new ecosystem investments that unlock partner innovation and deliver immediate impact for developers and the business.

Responsibilities

• Customer and Industry Insights: Synthesize partner, customer, and industry insights to identify high-leverage ecosystem opportunities. Advise both partners and internal GitHub teams on where integrations deliver differentiated developer value and where product or platform gaps exist.
• Reference Solutions & Prototyping: Design, build, and maintain high-quality reference integrations, sample apps, CLIs, SDK extensions, workflows, and architectures demonstrating best practices for scale, security, and developer experience. Architect, build, and demonstrate technical Proofs of Concept (POCs) and Points of View (POVs) with partners, instrumenting success criteria, performance, and security baselines, leveraging modern AI tooling and proficiency in languages like Go, Ruby, or Typescript.
• Deep Technical & AI Enablement: Create and deliver enablement—including documentation, workshops, and hands-on labs for partner SEs, CEs, and field engineers. This role requires fluency in agentic development patterns and will provide deep-dive guidance on integrations with GitHub Copilot and AI workflows (context sourcing, prompts/policies, telemetry, guardrails, and evaluation).
• Trusted Advisor & Technology Strategy: Act as the technical voice of partners inside GitHub, surfacing integration friction, API constraints, and ecosystem opportunities. Collaborate closely with Product and Engineering teams to shape GitHub’s and GitHub Copilot’s platform capabilities, prioritization, and developer experience improvements.
• Integration Lifecycle: Own the end-to-end integration lifecycle with partners from design and prototype through hardening, security review, production rollout, and ongoing reliability/observability, ensuring integrations meet GitHub-quality bars and scale with developer demand.
• Product Voice and Influence: Act as the technical voice of the partner, providing feedback and escalating pressing issues. Funnel product feedback, surface integration gaps, and influence roadmaps for GitHub and engineering teams.
• Sales and Launch Collaboration: Collaborate across teams (Partner Management, Sales, and Marketing) to unblock technical issues in deals, validate joint value propositions, and support launches (blogs, webinars, talks, demos). Help conduct proofs of concept (pre-sales) or product demos (post-sales). The ideal candidate would also be able to represent GitHub in partner launches, public demos, webinars, blog posts, and conference talks.
• Operational Excellence: Define and help implement integration acceptance criteria (performance, security, reliability) and support readiness for partner integrations; define and instrument success in collaboration with the Product team. Champion a culture of innovation, clarity, and empathy for developers.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years experience in business development, partner management, strategy development, corporate development, go-to-market, partner marketing, or related experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business or related field AND 5+ years experience in related fields OR Master's Degree in related fields AND 3+ years experience OR Doctorate in related fields AND 1+ year(s) experience OR equivalent experience.
• 7+ years experience in technical consulting, technical consultative selling, software engineering, or related technical/sales/industry experience.
• Experience with APIs, SDKs, developer platforms, and generative AI practices, large language models (LLMs), or prompt engineering.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 9+ years experience in business development, partner management, strategy development, corporate development, go-to-market, partner marketing, or related experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business or related field AND 7+ years experience in related fields OR Master's Degree in related fields AND 5+ years experience OR Doctorate in related fields AND 3+ years experience OR equivalent experience.
• 3+ years experience with APIs, SDKs, developer platforms, and generative AI practices, large language models (LLMs), or prompt engineering.
• Experience working directly with external partners or customers on complex technical implementations, operating with high autonomy and ownership.
• Experience owning the end-to-end integration lifecycle with partners—from design and prototype through hardening, security review, production rollout, and ongoing reliability/observability—ensuring integrations meet GitHub-quality bars and scale with developer demand.

Compensation Range

The base salary range for this job is USD $103,200.00 - USD $273,700.00 /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, and abilities of the applicant. At GitHub, certain roles are eligible for benefits and additional rewards, including an annual bonus and stock, allocated based on individual impact in the role. Additionally, certain roles have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization.

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

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Key skills/competency

• Partner Management
• Technical Consulting
• AI Integration
• Developer Ecosystem
• Product Strategy
• API Development
• Generative AI
• Solution Architecture
• Project Lifecycle Management
• Technical Enablement