Staff Engineering Manager-DX, Build & Test

GitHub, Inc.

16h•Remote

About The Position

The Developer Experience (DX) organization is seeking a Staff Engineering Manager to lead the Build and Test team, part of the group responsible for the foundational systems that power GitHub’s internal development workflows. DX focuses on improving how GitHub engineers build, test, and ship software across the company—operating at significant scale and complexity. Our work spans CI/CD platforms, developer tooling, virtualized infrastructure, and the paved paths that enable teams to move quickly while maintaining reliability and security. The Build and Test team owns the core build and continuous integration systems used across GitHub. We provide the tooling, services, and operational support that allow engineers to deliver changes to production safely and efficiently. This includes running highly available, company-wide CI platforms; partnering closely with application and platform teams to improve reliability and performance; and continuously reducing friction in the developer workflow. The team plays a critical role in maintaining trust in GitHub’s build and test infrastructure while balancing speed, scale, and stability. GitHub’s continued growth brings both opportunity and complexity. As a Staff Engineering Manager in this role, you will lead a distributed team operating mission-critical systems in a fast-moving environment. You’ll work closely with engineers across the company to improve CI reliability, reduce test flakiness, respond to incidents, and evolve our platforms to meet the needs of a rapidly scaling organization. This role blends people leadership, technical depth, and operational ownership, with a direct impact on the daily experience of GitHub engineers and the quality of the products used by millions of developers worldwide.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

Experience leading or owning large-scale CI/CD and build systems, including monolith or monorepo environments, with a focus on reliability, performance, and developer experience.
Proven ability to run operationally critical platforms, including incident response, on-call leadership, observability, and cross-org escalation.
Track record of cross-team collaboration and influence, working with application owners and platform teams to drive best practices and paved paths.
Familiarity with test infrastructure and quality challenges at scale, including diagnosing CI failures and reducing flaky tests.
Experienced people manager able to balance execution, operational stability, and long-term platform investment in complex, high-change environments.

Responsibilities

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

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