Principal Engineering Manager, Git Systems

GitHub, Inc.

14h•Remote

About The Position

GitHub is seeking a Principal Engineering Manager to join the Git Systems Engineering team, which runs the largest code-hosting platform in the world, part of our Platform and Enterprise org. Our group is responsible for the services that store and serve Git repositories, both directly to users and to other layers in the GitHub software stack. We build the various microservices, protocols, proxies, and control systems that power Git operations at GitHub and operate them at scale. Our group is highly distributed and the right candidate will thrive in an environment of asynchronous communication. We expect you to have excellent written communication skills and be able to create working relationships with coworkers in locations around the globe. This role is focused on wide-reaching, cross-team work to improve GitHub’s engineering processes, systems, and architecture. Principal Engineering Managers are focused on the most impactful work in Platform engineering and provide guidance to engineering leadership and the organization to help build, scale, and maintain GitHub as the home for all developers.

Requirements

11+ 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 10+ 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 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 Master's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, 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 PhD 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 equivalent experience.
5+ years experience in people management.
6+ years experience with troubleshooting across network, application, caching, queuing, load-balancing, storage and distributed services layers.
6+ years experience in one or more of the following domains: kernels, networking, compilers, software development tools, databases, HTTP, virtual machines, containers, security.

Nice To Haves

Prior experience migrating from data center to cloud infrastructure
Experience designing large scale cloud services and distributed systems
Experience with cloud platforms like Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services
Understanding of production system monitoring and observability
Ability to think critically about both system design and software engineering concepts and blend those perspectives pragmatically based on project needs

Responsibilities

Drive department-wide conversations around technical issues and engineering practices, suggesting improvements and ideas as you see them
Ensure the team builds software that is architecturally consistent and of high quality, establishing patterns and best practices for the organization
Coordinate with engineering and product leads to define, prioritize, and task projects that help us meet business objectives
Provide technical leadership, mentorship, pairing opportunities, and code reviews to encourage the growth of others
Help cultivate an environment where team members are empowered and demonstrate a strong sense of ownership and belonging
Collaborating with other Engineering Managers to define the future of GitHub engineering and working together to implement that vision
Collaborating with design, analytics, support, and product management to understand the problems we want to solve and exploring how we can solve them
Digging in to the most important issues the department is tackling by asking questions, creating plans, recognizing pitfalls, and raising concerns
Discussing and collaboratively solving engineering and product problems with engineering collaborators in Slack or Zoom
Supporting company-wide initiatives
Bringing key plans and execution ideas to the management team
Mentoring other engineers at all experience levels
Responding to issues and review requests from other teams at GitHub
Reviewing your teammates' Pull Requests and providing helpful feedback
Serve as an engineering representative for critical customer conversations to discover what they love and what their pain points are
Embedding in a squad periodically to enable others to tackle challenges and stretch assignments
As a part of Engineering technical leadership, advising on key initiatives, gaps, and technical blind spots