Senior Software Engineer - VS Code (GitHub - CoreAI)

About the role

Identify product and engineering opportunities, helping define what to build through user feedback, experimentation, and technical insight. Shape technical direction within your area, balancing near-term product needs with long-term maintainability. Lead hands-on design, implementation, testing, and delivery of VS Code features, coordinating contributors and partner-team dependencies as needed.

Own outcomes after release: understand adoption, investigate quality issues, and use telemetry, evaluations, and user feedback to guide improvements. Improve responsiveness and reliability through profiling, debugging, and automated testing; strengthen the tools that let the team experiment and ship confidently.

Work in the open: discuss designs publicly, investigate community-reported issues, and collaborate directly with developers and extension authors. Mentor engineers and improve technical decisions through constructive design and code reviews.

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, JavaScript, or TypeScript or RUST OR equivalent experience.

These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: 5+ years of software engineering experience, with a track record of independently delivering and maintaining production features or substantial components. Programming and application engineering skills, with the ability to become productive in a large TypeScript and Rust codebase.

Experience leading technical design and hands-on delivery for complex projects involving multiple contributors, within one team or across partner teams. Product and engineering judgment, including the ability to turn an ambiguous user problem into a practical, maintainable solution. Communication and collaboration skills, including working across team boundaries and helping other engineers grow.

Experience with TypeScript, JavaScript or Rust. Experience building interactive applications, with attention to performance, accessibility, or cross-platform behavior. Experience designing APIs, extension points, or reusable components.- Experience improving products through direct user feedback, telemetry, or experiments. Experience building AI-powered features or contributing to developer tools or open-source projects.