Staff Engineering Manager

GitHub; United States; Remote; USD 127,000 - 339,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Staff Software Engineer Manager to lead the Deploy team. This role is pivotal in enhancing the internal developer experience, optimizing application development, and ensuring stable and secure platforms. You will collaborate with a diverse team to deliver high-quality services at scale, making impactful contributions in a fast-paced environment. If you are passionate about fostering good engineering practices and leading distributed teams, this opportunity is perfect for you. Join a remote-first company that values diversity and offers generous growth opportunities while changing the world together.

Benefits

Competitive pay

Generous learning opportunities

Excellent benefits

Remote-first work environment

Qualifications

• 9+ years in Software Engineering with production software experience.
• 3+ years of people management experience.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with teams to solve critical problems.
• Unblock obstacles and ensure quality code and systems.
• Conduct 1:1s to provide feedback and support career growth.

Skills

Software Engineering

C/C++/C#/Java/JavaScript/Go/Ruby/Rust/Python

DevOps best practices

Excellent communication skills

People management

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

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

Staff Software Engineer Manager - DX

The Developer Experience (DX) department is seeking a Staff Engineering Manager to lead the Deploy team and be part of the organization that develops foundational components powering GitHub products. The DX team is responsible for enhancing the internal developer experience at GitHub, covering all stages of application development. Our scope includes, but is not limited to, optimizing the development experience, providing robust DevOps solutions, managing virtual infrastructure, and more.

The Deploy team provides the tools and services that enable GitHub employees to deliver applications to production in a safe and delightful way. The team’s mission is to enable GitHub developers to work efficiently and enjoy their day-to-day activities while ensuring our platforms remain stable, secure, and reliable. This role is critical in a fast-paced environment where you can make a high-impact contribution to our product offerings.

GitHub is growing fast and needs to deliver more quickly than before, which brings new and interesting challenges. In this role, you will have the opportunity to work as an engineer with a distributed, diverse, and passionate team delivering features and improvements to the stack. You’ll collaborate with our team of engineers, designers, writers, and product managers to build and maintain customer-facing experiences and backend solutions, enabling high-quality services running at a global scale and delivering those experiences into the hands of millions of developers across the world.

Responsibilities

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 engineering teams, product management, 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
• Communicating effectively to stakeholders and leadership of progress and risks
• Coordinating work within the team and stakeholders, building relationships, and identifying opportunities and areas of improvement
• Ensuring the team produces good architectural design outcomes, secure and resilient systems, and quality code
• Ensuring the team iteratively ships features and bug fixes, balancing speed to market with future velocity
• Conducting 1:1s with direct reports to provide regular feedback and ensure career growth and progression

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• 9+ 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
• 3+ years people management experience

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with Devops best practices and Kubernettes
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Passionate about fostering good engineering practices and processes
• Experience recruiting and retaining healthy teams, managing performance, and calibrating expectations
• Experience working remotely and leading distributed teams

Compensation Range

The base salary range for this job is USD $127,600.00 - USD $338,500.00 /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!