Staff Engineering Manager, Github
Edge Traffic
$127.6-338.5k
+ annual bonus and stock
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
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help every developer—regardless of experience level—learn, code, and ship software effectively.
Role
Who you are
- We expect you to have excellent written communication skills and be able to create working relationships with coworkers in locations around the globe
- 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
- 4+ years experience building, scaling and maintaining global edge technologies, such as load balancers, API gateways, and/or CDNs
- 3+ years people management experience
Desirable
- Passionate about resilient, reliable, and high performance infrastructure
- Energized by creating and growing exceptional teams through strong engineering practices and processes
- Consistent focus on customer needs and data-informed decision making
- Pragmatic focus on delivering incremental, continuous value toward long-running objectives
- Experience with cloud platforms, such as Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services
- Excellent analytical skills when proactively identifying risks and balancing priorities
What the job involves
- GitHub is seeking a Staff Software Engineering Manager to join our Platform organization to lead our Edge Traffic engineering team!
- GitHub’s Traffic team is responsible for every packet into and out of GitHub’s edge, and delivers a foundational load balancing platform for all of its services
- As Staff Engineering Manager, you will lead a team of engineers to deliver highly-available, highly-scalable core infrastructure that we use to build GitHub itself
- You will work across Engineering, Product, and Customer functions to ensure our Traffic platform meets the needs of GitHub’s customers and developers, ensuring our continued success as a global product
- Our group is highly distributed and the right candidate will thrive in an environment of asynchronous communication
- Evolve GitHub’s global load balancing platform across our presence in Microsoft Azure and our physical data centers
- Oversee and guide a distributed team, taking accountability for the team’s vision, best practices, and priorities
- Provide clarity and a shared understanding of decision making, direction, and progress for the team and the company
- Provide career development plans, coaching, and guided performance feedback to your team’s engineers
- Drive incident response, operational excellence, and facilitate blameless postmortems
- Plan and execute complex technical projects, coordinating work with engineering teams across the stack
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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