Director of Software Engineering, Github
Git Systems
$127.6-338.5k
AI-powered developer platform to build, scale, and deliver secure software
Open for applications
AI-powered developer platform to build, scale, and deliver secure software
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$127.6-338.5k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help every developer—regardless of experience level—learn, code, and ship software effectively.
Role
Who you are
- A Director leading this team must have a strong balance of people, project, and technical management - flexing their skill sets to empower the team to create innovative solutions and drive long-term positive strategic outcomes for GitHub
- 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
- 5+ years experience developing and operating highly scaled critical software and systems infrastructure
- 3+ years Experience recruiting distributed teams, managing performance, and calibrating expectations while fostering good engineering practices and processes
Desirable
- Experience working on or maintaining highly visible open-source software
- 3+ years of experience developing a strategy and roadmap in partnership with your team and stakeholders
- 2+ years of experience managing engineering managers
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Software Engineering Director to lead the development and operations of the systems that store and serve all Git repository data for GitHub
- This role is critical in a fast-paced environment where you can make a high-impact contribution to our product offerings
- As a Software Engineering Director, you'll guide a globally distributed team of managers and engineers, enhancing and scaling our products to deliver an exceptional experience that meets the unique needs of our diverse customer base
- Our team is distributed worldwide which means we work both asynchronously and real-time
- Directors at GitHub directly manage managers and senior/lead engineers and we allow for this track to grow in complexity within the product and technology offerings as well as breadth
- We separate this track from our manager roles who manage individual contributors and focus on depth
- Collaborating with engineering teams, product management, platform customers, and engineering leadership to align on and understand the problems we want to solve and drive long-term strategic outcomes
- Unblocking obstacles for your teams 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. Help drive clarity and prioritization across the organization
- Communicating effectively to support internal and external users and inform stakeholders of progress as well as system status and team health
- Promote Engineering standards and best practices, ensuring teams produce secure, performant, and resilient architectures, systems, andcode
- Driving the execution strategy to ensure teams iteratively ship features and bug fixes, balancing speed to market with future velocity
- Hiring and developing talent, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and technical excellence
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
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
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 values
- Customer-obsessed
- Ship to learn
- Growth mindset
- Own the outcome
- Better together
- Diverse and inclusive
Company HQ
South Beach, San Francisco, CA
Articles
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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