GitHub is growing its Software Engineering leadership team and is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to drive strategic alignment and technical excellence across complex product areas. The role will provide technical and people leadership, champion best practices, and influence enterprise-level architecture decisions to guide teams in delivering scalable, secure, and high-quality solutions.
Requirements
- 11+ 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
- 5+ years 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.
- 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
- Guide teams in developing technical solutions and creating comprehensive architecture and solution design documents, ensuring alignment with security and compliance requirements.
- 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.
- Collaborate with other departments such as Product, Design, and Marketing to ensure alignment on product development goals and timelines.
- Strategic Leadership: Champion alignment across multiple teams, ensuring ownership of design discussions and system architecture for deeply complex products and features.
