GitHub is growing its Software Engineering team and is seeking experienced professionals to enhance its engineering team's efforts. The role aims to improve architecture design, software development, data analysis, and collaboration with stakeholders to drive project outcomes.
Requirements
- 9+ years' experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C-Sharp, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python
- 3+ years of people management experience.
- In-depth knowledge of modern software architectures, such as microservices and cloud-native solutions, and experience in implementing these at scale.
- Experience leading diverse engineering teams in a fast-paced environment, with a track record of successfully delivering complex projects on time and within budget
Responsibilities
- Guide teams in developing technical solutions and creating comprehensive architecture and solution design documents, ensuring alignment with security and compliance requirements.
- Establish and enforce guidelines for code reviews that meet GitHub's quality standards, ensuring code reliability, accuracy, and scalability across products and solutions.
- Drive project plans, release plans, and work items in coordination with stakeholders, breaking down long-term project visions into actionable milestones and ensuring resource alignment.
- Lead efforts to integrate automation within production and deployment processes, optimizing deployments to meet diverse business objectives while adhering to GitHub's deployment standards.
- Act as an expert in live service operations, developing playbooks and processes to resolve complex issues, and ensuring responses are within Service Level Objectives (SLO) timeframes.
- Facilitate cross-team communications, identify dependencies, and resolve conflicts to ensure seamless integration and support across products, applications, and services.
- Define and drive the technical strategy for the organization, ensuring alignment with business goals.
Other
- Collaborate with stakeholders to determine feature requirements
- Influence project outcomes through your expertise in architecture design, software development, data analysis, and experience collaborating and communicating effectively with a diverse set of stakeholders.
- Drive employee growth and development, manage performance, and ensure the engineering team's skills remain current by staying abreast of industry developments and best practices.
- Identify potential risks in engineering projects and develop strategies to mitigate them.
- Collaborate with other departments such as Product, Design, and Marketing to ensure alignment on product development goals and timelines.
