Principal Engineering Manager, AI Platform & Scale

GitHub, Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 425,000; Full time

Job summary

GitHub, Inc. is seeking a Principal Software Engineer manager to lead the development of agentic experiences on the GitHub Cloud Agent platform.

You will guide a staff-level engineering team, translating product strategy into a clear technical roadmap and delivering secure, scalable, high-quality experiences for millions of developers and organizations. You will recruit, coach, and develop a high-performing team, champion ownership, inclusion, and collaboration, and partner with product, design,

Qualifications

• 11+ years in software engineering with production systems.
• Experience managing teams of staff and principal engineers.
• Strong distributed systems & AI/ML production experience.
• Excellent cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the technical roadmap aligned with product goals.
• Shape GitHub's AI product portfolio and scale initiatives globally.
• Grow and mentor engineers, foster ownership and collaboration.
• Ensure incident response, reliability, and capacity planning.
• Foster telemetry-driven development and data-informed decisions.
• Identify bottlenecks in AI-powered workflows to improve impact.
• Drive engineering excellence through automation and standardization.
• Collaborate with product, design, security, and research teams.

Skills

Software engineering

Distributed systems

Mentoring

People management

AI/ML features

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS

Master's degree in CS

PhD in CS

Associate degree + 10+ years

Tools

Rust

Go

C/C++

Python

Job description

GitHub, Inc. is seeking a Principal Software Engineer manager to lead the development of agentic experiences on the GitHub Cloud Agent platform.

You will guide a staff-level engineering team, translating product strategy into a clear technical roadmap and delivering secure, scalable, high-quality experiences for millions of developers and organizations. You will recruit, coach, and develop a high-performing team, champion ownership, inclusion, and collaboration, and partner with product, design,