Sr. Mgr, Software Engineering, GraphQL Platform

GitHub; United States; Remote; USD 112,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the GraphQL platform team. This role involves maintaining a high-traffic API platform, fostering engineering excellence, and driving innovation. You will manage a team of engineers, ensuring quality and effective communication while developing strategic roadmaps. Join a remote-first company that values diversity, offers competitive pay, and provides opportunities for growth and learning. Be part of a mission to empower developers and change the world through technology.

Benefits

Competitive pay

Generous learning opportunities

Excellent benefits

Remote-first work environment

Qualifications

• 6+ years in Software Engineering with proven experience in production software.
• 1+ years in people management or leadership roles.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team to maintain and improve GitHub's GraphQL platform.
• Foster strong engineering practices and oversee project completion.

Skills

Software Engineering

Problem Solving

Team Leadership

Project Management

Communication Skills

Analytical Skills

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science or related field

Tools

GraphQL

C

C++

C#

Java

JavaScript

Go

Ruby

Rust

Python

Job description

About GitHub

As the global home for all developers, GitHub is the complete AI-powered developer platform to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 150+ million developers, including more than 90% of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to collaborate and experiment across 420+ million repositories. With all the collaborative features of GitHub, it has never been easier for individuals and teams to write faster, better code.

Locations

In this role you can work from Remote, United States

Overview

We are seeking a Senior Engineering manager for the GraphQL platform team in the Extensibility group. The GraphQL Platform team is responsible for maintaining and improving GitHub’s GraphQL platform. GitHub’s GraphQL platform serves more than 3.8B requests per week, with GitHub’s GraphQL APIs driving internal (e.g. Actions, GitHub mobile) and external integrations. Lead a team to execute 10x API architecture for GitHub while running crisp platform operations to keep our GraphQL platform running smoothly and highly available.

Responsibilities

Problem Solving: Identifying and addressing complex challenges and providing creative solutions to advance the organization's goals.

Engineering Excellence: Fostering strong engineering practices and processes, growing generational teams that value excellence.

Team Leadership: Leading and managing a team of engineers, which may include hiring, mentoring, and providing guidance to team members to help them excel in their roles. Conducting performance evaluations, setting goals, and providing feedback to team members to help them grow and develop in their roles.

Project Management: Overseeing the planning, execution, and successful completion of projects, ensuring they align with the organization's goals and objectives.

Strategy: Developing and implementing a strategic roadmap that supports our organization's long-term vision and objectives, including identifying areas of focus and setting priorities. At times this will mean charting the strategic path through ambiguity and uncertainty.

Collaboration: Collaborating with cross-functional teams, including engineers, product managers, designers, and data scientists to integrate solutions into product development and business strategies.

Innovation: Driving innovation within the team by exploring new methodologies, tools, and technologies that can enhance research capabilities and outcomes.

Communication: Effectively communicating status, findings, insights, and recommendations to the leadership team. Demonstration and encouragement around the importance of strong written and verbal communication skills.

Quality Assurance: Ensuring that work conducted by the team meets high-quality standards and adheres to ethical guidelines and industry best practices.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• 6+ 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.
• 1+ years of direct and/or indirect people management or leadership experience.
• 2+ years experience designing, building, scaling and maintaining distributed systems.
• Experience in testing, production system monitoring, and observability.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in GraphQL API development and architecture.
• Experience in Golang.
• Track record of leading teams in lean and effective operational practices.
• Track record of strong analytical skills as well as communication skills both verbal and written.
• Candidates located in EST (Eastern Standard Time) are strongly preferred.

Compensation Range

The base salary range for this job is USD $112,800.00 - USD $299,300.00 /Yr.

These pay ranges are intended to cover roles based across the United States. An individual's base pay depends on various factors including geographical location and review of experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant. At GitHub certain roles are eligible for benefits and additional rewards, including annual bonus and stock. These rewards are allocated based on individual impact in role. In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee's role.

GitHub values

• Customer-obsessed
• Ship to learn
• Growth mindset
• Own the outcome
• Better together
• Diverse and inclusive

Manager fundamentals

• Model
• Coach
• Care

Leadership principles

• Create clarity
• Generate energy
• Deliver success

Who We Are

GitHub is the world’s leading AI-powered developer platform with 150 million developers and counting. We’re also home to the biggest open-source community on earth (and 99% of the world’s software has open-source code in its DNA). Many of the apps and programs you use every day are built on GitHub.
Our teams are dreamers, doers, and pioneers, leading the way in AI, driving humanitarian efforts around the globe, and even sending open source to Mars (and beyond!). At GitHub, our goal is to create the space you need to do your best work. We’re remote-first and offer competitive pay, generous learning and growth opportunities, and excellent benefits to support you, wherever you are—because we know that people flourish when they can work on their own terms.
Join us, and let’s change the world, together.

EEO Statement

GitHub is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We embrace diversity and invite applications from people of all walks of life. We don't discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences. Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you; we're happy to accommodate!