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GitHub is seeking a Senior Software Engineering Manager to develop foundational components of the Copilot Platform. The role involves high-impact collaboration across distributed teams, utilizing strong management skills to drive innovation in AI and empower team development, while promoting good engineering practices.
We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineering Manager to help build foundational components of the Copilot Platform. This is an exciting role in a fast paced environment with high impact. A manager working on this team needs to have a strong balance of people, technical, and project management skills - flexing their skill sets to empower the team to create innovative solutions in the AI space.
A day in the life:
Our team is distributed worldwide which means we work both asynchronously and real-time. Your typical week would include:
Collaborating with internal and external engineering teams, product management, platform customers, and engineering leadership to align on and understand the problems we want to solve
Unblocking obstacles for your team members as they solve GitHub’s most critical problems, often via real-time conversations in Slack or Zoom, and with asynchronous communication in GitHub Issues, PRs, Discussions, and Projects to efficiently collaborate with teams in disparate timezones
Communicating effectively to support internal users, and inform stakeholders of progress as well as system status and team health
Conducting 1:1s with direct reports to provide regular feedback and ensure career growth and progression, coordinating work within the team and stakeholders, building relationships, and identifying opportunities and areas of improvement
Ensuring the team produces good architectural design outcomes, resilient systems, and high quality code
Ensuring the team iteratively ships features and bug fixes; balancing speed to market with future velocity
Leveraging state of the art AI tooling to maximize productivity for yourself and your direct reports
Required qualifications
6+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages
OR Associate’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages
OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages
OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 2+ 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#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python.
OR Doctorate in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
OR equivalent experience.
1+ year(s) direct and/or indirect people management or leadership experience.
Preferred qualifications
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Passionate about fostering good engineering practices and processes
Experience managing platform teams
Experience with delivering products in the artificial intelligence space
Experience working with research or applied scientists
GitHub values
Manager fundamentals
Leadership principles