Senior Engineering Manager GitHub

About GitHub As the global home for all developers, GitHub is the complete AI-powered developer platform to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 100 million people, including developers from 90 of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to build amazing things together across 330+ million repositories. With all the collaborative features of GitHub, it has never been easier for individuals and teams to write faster, better code. Locations In this role you can work from Remote, United Kingdom Overview We are looking for a Software Engineering Manager to lead the development of foundational components for GitHub products. 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 Manager, you’ll guide a globally distributed team of engineers, enhancing and scaling our products to deliver an exceptional experience that meets the unique needs of our diverse customer base. A manager working on 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. Responsibilities A day in the life: Our team is distributed worldwide which means we work both asynchronously and real-time. Your typical week would include: 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 Qualifications Required Qualifications Several 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 Direct and/or indirect people management or leadership experience. Preferred qualifications 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 GitHub values Customer-obsessed Ship to learn Growth mindset Own the outcome Better together Diverse and inclusive Manager fundamentals Model Coach Care Leadership principles Create clarity Generate energy Deliver success Who We Are GitHub is the world’s leading AI-powered developer platform with 100 million developers and counting. We’re also home to the biggest open-source community on earth (and 99% of the world’s software has open-source code in its DNA). Many of the apps and programs you use every day are built on GitHub. Our teams are dreamers, doers, and pioneers, leading the way in AI, driving humanitarian efforts around the globe, and even sending open source to Mars (and beyond!). At GitHub, our goal is to create the space you need to do your best work. We’re remote-first and offer competitive pay, generous learning and growth opportunities, and excellent benefits to support you, wherever you are—because we know that people flourish when they can work on their own terms. Join us, and let’s change the world, together. Equal Employment Opportunity GitHub is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We embrace diversity and invite applications from people of all walks of life. We don’t discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences. Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there’s any way we can make the interview process better for you; we’re happy to accommodate!

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