GitHub is growing its Software Engineering team and is seeking experienced professionals to enhance its engineering team's efforts. The role aims to influence project outcomes through expertise in architecture design, software development, data analysis, and stakeholder collaboration.
Requirements
- 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
- In-depth knowledge of modern software architectures, such as microservices and cloud-native solutions, and experience in implementing these at scale.
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.
- Define and drive the technical strategy for the organization, ensuring alignment with business goals.
- Identify potential risks in engineering projects and develop strategies to mitigate them. Ensure that all engineering practices comply with industry standards and regulations, maintaining a high level of security and privacy.
Other
- Collaborate with stakeholders to determine feature requirements
- Experience collaborating and communicating effectively with a diverse set of stakeholders.
- Facilitate cross-team communications, identify dependencies, and resolve conflicts to ensure seamless integration and support across products, applications, and services.
- 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.
- Strong understanding of business strategy and financial management, with the ability to align engineering projects with business objectives and manage budgets effectively.
- Experience leading diverse engineering teams in a fast-paced environment, with a track record of successfully delivering complex projects on time and within budget
- 3+ years of people management experience.
