Staff Engineering Manager, Licensing (Remote)

GitHub, Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 372,000; Full time

Job summary

GitHub is seeking a Staff Engineering Manager to lead the Licensing team, delivering cost-effective, secure technical solutions and aligning architecture with business goals. You will guide this expanded team, set priorities, coach engineers, and ensure the team delivers scalable, compliant usage tracking and downstream billing across core platform and Copilot.

This role focuses on leadership, strategic impact, and collaboration with product and cross-org stakeholders to drive reliable

Qualifications

• 9+ years' experience in software engineering with production systems.
• 3+ years people management experience.

Responsibilities

• Guide teams in creating technical solutions for licensing and subscription access, ensuring cost-effectiveness and security.
• Develop and enforce code review guidelines to ensure reliability and scalability of usage tracking and billing.
• Drive project and release plans in coordination with Product and cross-org stakeholders.
• Oversee deployment optimization across products and components for safe, standard deployments.
• Act as escalation point for live service operations impacting revenue and compliance, offering technical guidance.

Skills

Software engineering

People management

System design

Cloud-native architectures

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Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

GitHub is seeking a Staff Engineering Manager to lead the Licensing team, delivering cost-effective, secure technical solutions and aligning architecture with business goals. You will guide this expanded team, set priorities, coach engineers, and ensure the team delivers scalable, compliant usage tracking and downstream billing across core platform and Copilot.

This role focuses on leadership, strategic impact, and collaboration with product and cross-org stakeholders to drive reliable