GitHub lists staff role up to $372K

GitHub posted a U.S.-remote Staff Software Engineer, Code Search opening with a salary range of $140,400 to $372,300 a year, according to the company’s careers page. The listing says the role sits on the team behind Blackbird, GitHub’s lexical and semantic code search engine, which the company says powers retrieval across GitHub and Copilot products. (github.careers) The posting was still live on May 24. Nearby job listings showed a much lower floor elsewhere in the market, with Chewy advertising a Boston software-engineering role up to $163,000 and Kaseware listing an associate software engineer job in Denver at $70,000 to $90,000 on third-party job pages. (indeed.com) ### Why is GitHub’s range getting attention? (jobs.apple.com) GitHub’s disclosed band stands out because the top end reaches $372,300 for a single engineering role. The company describes the job as an experienced individual-contributor position focused on scaling and extending Blackbird and integrating it with AI agents and new software-development workflows. The job description ties the role to GitHub’s code search and Copilot stack rather than to a general platform team. GitHub says Blackbird supports “business-critical experiences” across products including Cloud Agent, Code Review, Copilot CLI and Visual Studio Code integrations. (github.careers) ### What does the posting say about the work itself? Blackbird is the named system at the center of the role. GitHub says the engineer would help “develop, scale, operate and extend” that search engine, with work spanning distributed systems and AI-powered developer workflows. The company also frames the opening as part of a broader push around AI-assisted coding. (github.careers) GitHub’s careers page says more than 77,000 organizations have adopted GitHub Copilot, and more than 180 million developers use GitHub’s platform. ### How wide is the spread compared with other current listings? Chewy’s Boston Software Engineer I listing was shown at an estimated $131,082 to $163,000 on a recent job page. (github.careers) That places its upper end less than half of GitHub’s posted maximum. Kaseware’s Associate Software Engineer opening in Denver was listed at $70,000 to $90,000 on Monster, while Indeed showed the same role at $70,000 to $90,000 and said it had been posted weeks earlier. (github.careers) The social post cited in the card referenced $70,000 to $80,000, but current job pages available on May 24 showed the broader $70,000 to $90,000 band. (indeed.com) ### Where does Apple fit into this snapshot? Apple had separate openings visible for Senior Software Engineer, AI Tools – Special Projects, and for a Vision Products Group software-development role. The available Apple job pages reviewed on May 24 described the work but did not show a public pay range in the search results surfaced here. (theladders.com) The AI Tools posting described work on applications, pipelines and creative workflows for multimodal data, while the Vision Products Group role referenced framework features for real-time experiences across Apple products including Vision Pro, iPhone and Mac. (monster.com) ### Does one listing tell you what software engineers are paid? A single posting does not establish a market rate. The current set of listings shows that compensation disclosures vary by employer, location, seniority and specialization, and that AI- or search-linked senior roles can carry much higher ceilings than entry-level or associate openings. That comparison is drawn directly from the posted bands and role descriptions visible on May 24. (jobs.apple.com) May 24 is the key date for this snapshot because the GitHub, Apple, Chewy and Kaseware pages cited here were all live or recently crawled then. The next concrete step for readers is to watch the employers’ own careers pages for revisions to pay bands, locations or job status, starting with GitHub job 5379 and Apple’s listed AI Tools and Vision Products Group openings. (jobs.apple.com) (github.careers) (indeed.com)