Senior Engineering Manager, AI Agentic Platform

GitHub, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 160,000 - 425,000; Full time

Job summary

GitHub is seeking a Principal Software Engineer manager to lead the development of Agentic experiences within the Copilot Agents organization. You will mentor senior engineers, translate product strategy into a clear technical roadmap, and ensure secure, scalable, high-quality experiences for millions of developers and organizations.

You will recruit, coach, and develop a high-performing team, collaborating with Product Management, Design, Research, Security, and engineering teams across GitHub

Qualifications

• 11+ years' experience in Software Engineering or related field with production software coding in multiple languages.
• 5+ years people management experience.
• 3+ years building/managing large scale services or agentic products.
• Preferred: experience with AI/ML-powered features in production systems.

Responsibilities

• Drive and execute technical roadmap aligned with product goals.
• Shape GitHub’s AI product portfolio and scale initiatives globally.
• Drive employee growth and development and manage performance.
• Own incident response and reliability practices and capacity planning.
• Champion experimentation and telemetry-driven development.
• Identify bottlenecks in AI-powered development workflows.
• Drive automation, tooling, and standardization across deployment, testing, and operations.
• Partner with product managers and technical leads to translate requirements into designs.

Skills

C/C++

C#

Java

JavaScript

Go

Ruby

Rust

Python

Distributed systems

People management

Large-scale services

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Master's Degree in Computer Science or related field

PhD in Computer Science or related field

Job description

GitHub is seeking a Principal Software Engineer manager to lead the development of Agentic experiences within the Copilot Agents organization. You will mentor senior engineers, translate product strategy into a clear technical roadmap, and ensure secure, scalable, high-quality experiences for millions of developers and organizations.

You will recruit, coach, and develop a high-performing team, collaborating with Product Management, Design, Research, Security, and engineering teams across GitHub