# Software Engineer - GitHub Copilot API

OverviewGitHub is looking for a Software Engineer II (L62) to join the Copilot API Platform Frameworks team. This role focuses on building and maintaining backend services and APIs that power GitHub Copilot and its integrations, with an emphasis on sound technical design, service performance, reliability at scale, and intelligent LLM request routing. The ideal candidate has experience building and operating distributed systems in production and enjoys working close to the details of system behaviour, latency, and failure modes. You will contribute to technical designs for the features you own, clarifying requirements, proposing approaches, and making pragmatic trade-offs, while partnering with senior engineers to align with broader platform architecture. You care about building services that are observable, efficient, and resilient, and about designing routing and orchestration layers that optimise quality, speed, and cost. As a Software Engineer III on the Copilot API team, you will collaborate with a distributed, diverse group of engineers, product managers, and AI-focused partners across GitHub to deliver improvements that other engineers can depend on. You will help design, imp

- **Id**: 2922285
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/microsoft-software-engineer-github-copilot-api>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Czech Republic
- **Countries**: CZ
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-14T12:38:57Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-20
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T00:25:33Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 23
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- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Console Games, Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS), Gaming Consoles, Developer Tools

## Company

- **Id**: 18
- **Name**: Microsoft
- **Domain**: microsoft.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/microsoft>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Eightfold

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 84
- **Open postings**: 424
- **Ghost share**: 0.005
- **Stale share**: 0.599
- **Repost share**: 0.033
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 29
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 966000
- **Max**: 1727000
- **Currency**: CZK
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 79658

## Technologies

- **C#** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Copilot** — Optional: no
- **GitHub** — Optional: no
- **Go** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **LLM Guardrails** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Ruby** — Optional: no
- **Rust** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 23

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: yes

## Hiring locations

- **Czech Republic** — Iso: CZ; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-10-20T12:25:47Z

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- **Score**: 41
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.55
- **P room**: 0.75
- **Age days**: 22
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: conf:4, stale_co, velocity, win:late, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 79658
- **Is top pay**: no

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