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 changing the way the world builds software and we want you to help secure GitHub. We're looking for an experienced director to lead a vibrant and geographically distributed group of engineers as they protect the home of all developers. This role is not about dictating or managing a team member's work directly, but rather guiding and serving to ensure the happiness and productivity of the entire team. The primary goal of this job is to enable each team to do the best work of their lives. You will advocate for them and continue to hire a diverse group of incredibly talented people. 

As a director, you will lead engineering managers and individual contributors in key roles across our secure access engineering (SAE) portfolio. This team enables and supports secure access to GitHub's internal infrastructure and to the data stored therein. You will be accountable for operational excellence, systems maturity, and maintainability of systems under your purview, including but not limited to: identity and access management (IAM) software tools and paved paths for IAM-related requests; systems and processes of record that provide access to internal GitHub infrastructure; and systems and processes of record that maintain and operate secrets. This position has a leadership role in defining how GitHub uses GitHub to secure GitHub.   

At GitHub, the director of secure access engineering works with all teams to ensure the right Hubbers have the right access at the right time for the right reasons.

If you have a foundation in information security, an understanding of large-scale web applications and infrastructure, and proven experience designing, architecting and executing on modern zero trust strategies then this might be the gig for you.

Responsibilities

• Holding a high and consistent performance standard throughout the organization; intentionally working to create a culture of both high performance and psychological safety.
• Managing key initiatives that span multiple teams across GitHub.
• Confidently representing the secure access engineering domain internally and externally.
• Serving as the hiring manager for the team to bring in new engineers who not only complement the existing team's skills, but who also have new perspectives, ideas, and experiences.
• Guiding the team's vision, helping build roadmaps, ensuring projects get staffed effectively, and setting priorities that align with both the team and GitHub's goals.
• Build partnerships throughout the company, with our parent company Microsoft, and across industry peers to share knowledge and best practices.
• Managing team budgets, external consultants, and service provider contracts.
• Creating and maintaining an on-call rotation, when required.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of personnel management of small to medium sized engineering teams.
• 10+ years of technical engineering experience with several years focused on security and compliance engineering and operations.
• 3+ years of experience working with production security and site reliability engineering teams.
• Technical project management with a proven ability to meet objectives.
• Experience working on projects where stakeholders have competing aims.

Preferred Qualifications 

• Experience creating a vision and getting buy-in from the team and cross-functional stakeholders. 
• Experience working as a remote employee, and managing distributed teams.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with a strong sense of empathy and the ability to advocate for your team.
• Ability to take a pragmatic, risk-based approach to decision making while applying practical security principles and practices.
• Experience / familiarity working with GitHub's Products and services and demonstrated software development experience with Go, Ruby on Rails, Bash, Python, or other languages.
• Proven success in developing and using metrics/KPIs to assess, report on and improve program performance.
• Experience in an iterative, transparent environment where work is shared in draft stages.
• Proficiency in working under ambiguous situations, with demonstrated drive to bring clarity using communication and independent research of existing documentation and resources.
• Experience with a team-centric mindset. Drawn to collaboration with a belief that we create a better result together and confidence in ability to say "I don't know, but I will find out!" with a strong desire to learn.

Compensation Range

USD $118,100.00 - USD $313,300.00 /Yr.

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.

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 Leadership Principles

Customer Obsessed - Trust by Default - Ship to Learn - Own the Outcome - Growth Mindset - Global Product, Global Team - Anything is Possible - Practice Kindness

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.