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 Copilot has changed the way software is built, and we have a unique opportunity to look further ahead to identify how software development can be faster, safer, easier, and more accessible. We’re looking for a talented and experienced Software Engineer Manager to join us in this mission!

Our org, Code Intelligence, has the crucial role of driving GitHub’s vision for the future of AI-powered software development. Our responsibilities encompass various areas such as LLM integration, prompt engineering, and the development of end-to-end AI features using cutting-edge technologies. In this role, you will be responsible for driving the engineering related efforts and integrating intelligence solutions into the Copilot product. This includes model selection, deployment, capacity management, and runtime stack integration. You will collaborate closely with a diverse and highly skilled group of product managers, designers, researchers, and software engineers within our team, while partnering with many other teams across GitHub and Microsoft. Together, we are dedicated to shaping the future of software development by building AI-powered capabilities into GitHub’s existing and future portfolio of products.

Responsibilities

Problem Solving: Identifying and addressing complex challenges and providing creative solutions to advance the organization's goals.

Engineering Excellence: Fostering strong engineering practices and processes, growing generational teams that value excellence.

Team Leadership: Leading and managing a team of engineers, which may include hiring, mentoring, and providing guidance to team members to help them excel in their roles. Conducting performance evaluations, setting goals, and providing feedback to team members to help them grow and develop in their roles.

Project Management: Overseeing the planning, execution, and successful completion of projects, ensuring they align with the organization's goals and objectives.

Strategy: Developing and implementing a strategic roadmap that supports our organization's long-term vision and objectives, including identifying areas of focus and setting priorities. At times this will mean charting the strategic path through ambiguity and uncertainty.

Collaboration: Collaborating with cross-functional teams, including engineers, product managers, designers, and data scientists to integrate solutions into product development and business strategies.

Innovation: Driving innovation within the team by exploring new methodologies, tools, and technologies that can enhance research capabilities and outcomes.

Communication: Effectively communicating status, findings, insights, and recommendations to the leadership team. Demonstration and encouragement around the importance of strong written and verbal communication skills.

Quality Assurance: Ensuring that work conducted by the team meets high-quality standards and adheres to ethical guidelines and industry best practices.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• 6+ years of professional engineering or related experience
• 2+ years of managing engineering teams
• 2+ years experience designing, building, scaling and maintaining distributed systems
• Experience in testing, production system monitoring, and observability
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

These are more specific abilities we’re looking for, but it’s rare that someone possesses them all. Think of this as a descriptive sketch, not a checklist of requirements. We encourage you to apply even if you don’t have all of them.

• Track record of strong analytical skills as well as communication skills both verbal and written.
• Interest or prior experience in modern AI/machine learning technologies, Large Language Models or similar
• Have significant experience with one or more backend technologies: server-side environments, compute, datastores, networking, infrastructure, devops, security, and programming languages.
• Have significant experience with open-source software, communities, and the systems these communities use to self-organize and ship software for others.
  
  

Compensation Range

The base salary range for this job is USD $104,400.00 - USD $276,900.00 /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!