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Locations

In this role you can work from Remote, United States

Overview

We’re looking for a Software Engineering Manager to help build foundational components of the Copilot Platform. This is an exciting role in a fast paced environment with high impact. A manager working on this team needs to have a strong balance of people, project, and technical management - flexing their skill sets to empower the team to create innovative solutions in the AI space.

Responsibilities

A day in the life:

Our team is distributed worldwide which means we work both asynchronously and real-time. Managers at GitHub directly manage engineers and we allow for this track to grow in complexity within the product and technology. We separate this track from our Director roles who manage people managers and tend to focus on breadth. This role is for a platform team within the Copilot organization. Your typical week would include:

Collaborating with internal and external engineering teams, product management, platform customers, and engineering leadership to align on and understand the problems we want to solve.
Working with the team to explore and coach how we can solve them, often via real-time conversations in Slack or Zoom, and with asynchronous communication in GitHub Issues, PRs, Discussions, and Projects.
Communicating effectively to support internal users, and inform stakeholders of progress as well as system status and team health.
Conducting 1:1s with direct reports to provide regular feedback and ensure career growth and progression, coordinating work within the team and stakeholders, building relationships, and identifying opportunities and areas of improvement.
Ensuring the team produces good architectural design outcomes, resilient systems, and quality code.
Ensuring the team iteratively ships features and bug fixes; balancing speed to market with future velocity.


Qualifications

We care more about hiring people that have a track record of caring deeply about shipping software that helps people with their work than checking all of the qualifications off. So whether you meet all the qualifications or a partial set, we want to hear from you.

Required qualifications

8+ years experience building and shipping software using a variety of technology stacks, building large scale systems, or equivalent experience.
5+ years of experience managing engineering teams in complex systems.
Experience developing a strategy and roadmap in partnership with your team and stakeholders.
Experience communicating with high-level stakeholders and executing large initiatives in an iterative fashion.



Preferred qualifications



Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Passionate about fostering good engineering practices and processes.
Experience managing platform teams.
Experience with delivering products in the artificial intelligence space.
Experience working with research or applied scientists.


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 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.