Staff Engineering Manager, Github
$127.6-338.5k
+ Annual bonus and stock for eligible roles
AI-powered developer platform to build, scale, and deliver secure software
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AI-powered developer platform to build, scale, and deliver secure software
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$127.6-338.5k
+ Annual bonus and stock for eligible roles
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help every developer—regardless of experience level—learn, code, and ship software effectively.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- OR Associate’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 8+ 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
- OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field AND 7+ 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
- OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ 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
- OR Doctorate in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ 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
- OR equivalent experience
- 3+ years people management experience
Desirable
- Experience with Devops best practices and Kubernetes
- 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
What the job involves
- 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
- Our team is distributed worldwide which means we work both asynchronously and real-time
- 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
Our take
GitHub was founded to make a developer’s job easier with open and asynchronous communication, distributed version control, and source code management with Git. In the first year alone, 100,000 users were pushing code on the site.
GitHub has quickly become the world’s most popular platform for developers to collaborate on open-source projects from anywhere. Nearly every major company including Facebook, Google, and Apple hosts open-source projects on GitHub.
Github's work culture reflects its global community, with employees collaborating remotely from all over the world. In 2018, Microsoft acquired the company as part of its broader strategy to enhance cloud computing services. Since then, GitHub has been dedicated to evolving its platform, consistently investing in ongoing development to better serve its users.
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Insights
18% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jul 2015
$250m
SERIES B
Jul 2012
$100m
SERIES A
Total funding: $350m
Company benefits
- Flexible time away to support balance in your work and life
- Clear diversity, inclusion, and anti-discrimination policies backed by business practices and company culture
- Five months of paid family leave to all new parents with the option to use it all at once or throughout the child’s first year
- Family forming benefits that cover fertility, infertility, adoption, and surrogacy costs and support
- Mental health benefits that offer resources and support and cover therapy and coaching sessions for you and your dependents
- Generous 401(k) matching with 50% match up to the IRS 402(g) limit (US; competitive non-US pension options internationally)
- Employee stock purchase plan that lets you purchase Microsoft stock at a discount. (Microsoft is our parent company.)
- 100% of medical, dental, and vision insurance premiums covered by GitHub for you + your dependents. (Includes gender-affirming benefits)
Company HQ
South Beach, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Thomas Dohmke
(CEO)Currently a Board Member at Spice AI. Previously a Principal Director of PM at Microsoft, Co-Founder at HockeyApp / Bit Stadium GmbH and Codenauts GmbH.
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