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 States

Overview

GitHub is seeking a Staff Software Engineering Manager to join our Infrastructure organization.

GitHub is a company at the center of software, where projects are developed, orchestrated, and deployed. GitHub infrastructure is critical to our customers in the way the power grid is critical to the manufacturing industry. Our customers depend on GitHub as a central workspace where they develop solutions for their own customers.

The reward for this important role is a unique impact on creativity within the software development universe. With it comes the responsibility to view ourselves as the world’s production environment. One that needs to be as reliable as the power grid.

This role leads a distributed team of engineers and is involved in the design, rollout and support of highly performant, highly scalable, and highly available network services and infrastructure across GitHub datacenters and cloud providers.

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.

Responsibilities

• Drive network infrastructure management, automation, and efficiency
• Guide the team’s vision, best practices, and priorities
• Provide clarity of decision making, direction, and progress for the team and the company
• Cultivate an environment of empowerment, ownership, and belonging
• Provide career development plans and performance feedback
• Review code, review design docs, and lead discussions about technical problems
• Drive incident response, blameless postmortems, and continuous improvement
• Coordinate complex technical project work with engineering teams across the stack
  
  

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• 8+ years of professional technical experience
• 4+ Years Experience supporting global network infrastructure within a data center environment
• 4+ years of managing engineering teams
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Passionate about network engineering, automation and highly available infrastructure
• Energized by creating and growing exceptional engineering practices and processes
• Excellent analytical skills to proactively identify opportunities & risks and balance priorities
• Pragmatic focus on delivering incremental, continuous value toward long running objectives
• Strong written, verbal, and asynchronous communication skills
• Consistent focus on customer needs and data driven decision making
  
  

Compensation Range

The base salary range for this job is USD $127,600.00 - USD $338,500.00 /Yr.

These pay ranges are intended to cover roles based across the United States. An individual's base pay depends on various factors including geographical location and review of experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant. At GitHub certain roles are eligible for benefits and additional rewards, including annual bonus and stock. These rewards are allocated based on individual impact in role. In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee's role.

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.

EEO Statement

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!