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Locations

In this role you can work from Remote, United States

Overview

The Enterprise Server team is responsible for the Platform and Operator Experience of GitHub’s on-premise product. We're looking for an experienced engineering manager to help lead a distributed team of Platform and Infrastructure Engineers.

As a leader and manager, you will directly influence engineering culture, mentor and grow other engineers, engage in long term architectural planning, and partner closely with key partners across the company to help deliver a highly available, resilient and scalable Enterprise product.

The team is highly distributed and the right candidate can thrive in an environment of asynchronous communication. We expect you to have strong written and verbal communication skills and be able to create working relationships with coworkers in locations around the globe.

Responsibilities

Guiding the development team’s vision, best practices, and priorities.

Provide clarity and a shared understanding of decision making, direction, and progress for the team and the company.

Meeting 1-1 with team members on a regular basis.

Planning and supporting career development.

Giving guided performance feedback.

Reviewing code, design docs and leading small group discussions about engineering issues.

Drive incident response and facilitate blameless postmortems.

Coordinating work with engineering teams across the stack.


Qualifications

Required Qualifications

10+ years software engineering experience

5+ years of experience managing engineering teams
Experience designing, building, scaling and maintaining distributed, highly available systems.

Preferred Qualifications

Passionate about creating and fostering good engineering practices and processes

Passionate about resiliency and reliable infrastructure and building for high availability

Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Have experience managing/working on distributed teams.

Experience with building or managing on-premise products.

Experience with reliability engineering or experience being oncall for highly available systems


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.