Senior Director, Software Engineering

GitHub is changing the way the world builds software and we want you to help change the way we build GitHub. We're looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineering Director to work with a dynamic and distributed group of engineers on the Developer Experience Delivery team who help make GitHub the home of open source. 

The engineers on GitHub's Developer Experience Delivery team are responsible for owning the delivery-related engineering systems that GitHub uses to build GitHub. This includes ownership of our deployment systems, operational tooling, feature flag systems, developer portal, and Kubernetes infrastructure for running microservices.

You will own the strategic management of the department, representing the engineering systems to external and internal partners and driving major decisions that enable engineers at GitHub to be even more productive and set the example for the world on how to build and ship software using GitHub. 

Responsibilities include:

• Own organizational vision & objectives with leaders across Product, Design, and Engineering
• Think creatively while balancing technical constraints and customer needs to enable your team to build architecturally consistent, high quality software to reliably meet customer needs and exceed their expectations
• Ensure that individuals on the team are learning, growing and advancing in their respective careers through mentorship, pairing, and delegating work
• Foster an environment that strives for clear communication, accessibility, and understanding
• Own and advocate for the health and quality of the systems that the team builds, participate in a manager on-call rotation, and respond to incidents as necessary
• Ensure the team, the company and the community have a clear understanding of the direction of the projects and the reasoning behind decisions
• Drive data driven improvements to both product quality and engineering excellence and efficiency across your organization

• 8+ years of experience designing, developing, and shipping high quality software at scale
• 5+ years of engineering people management experience including 3+ years as a manager of managers.
• Experience building engineering systems for internal and external use and driving engineering strategy and long-term roadmap, taking into account organization design and scaling teams sustainably
• Deep experience running distributed systems, cloud services and driving operational excellence

• 10+ years of experience designing, developing, and shipping high quality software at scale
• 7+ years of engineering people management experience including 4+ years as a manager of managers.
• Excellent analytical skills as well as communication skills both verbal and written. We’re a distributed team so we’re extra mindful about communication.
• Demonstrated ability to attract talent to build highly functional technical teams, with a strong track record of managing performance, calibrating expectations, and building and maintaining a high performing organization

Minimum salary of $134,800 to maximum $357,500.

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.

Location: In this role, you can work remotely from anywhere in the United States.

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