GitHub · 1 day ago
Sr Director, Software Engineering
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff, Director/Executive
$160K/yr - $425K/yr
5+ years expGitHub is the world’s leading platform for agentic software development, and they are seeking an experienced Sr. Software Engineering Director to lead the development of foundational components that power GitHub products. This strategic role involves overseeing a team dedicated to ensuring quality and reliability, driving best practices, and enhancing service reliability and developer experience.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsInternetProject ManagementSaaSSoftware
Responsibilities
Collaborating with engineering teams, product management, platform customers, and engineering leadership to align on and understand the problems we want to solve and drive long-term strategic outcomes
Promote best engineering standards and practices, ensuring teams produce good architectural design outcomes, secure and resilient systems, and quality code
Ensuring teams iteratively ship features and bug fixes, balancing speed to market with future velocity
Unblocking obstacles for your teams as they solve GitHub’s most critical problems, often via real-time conversations in Slack or Zoom and with asynchronous communication in GitHub Issues, PRs, Discussions, and Projects. Help drive clarity and prioritization across the organization
Communicating effectively to support internal and external users and inform stakeholders of progress as well as system status and team health
Hiring and developing talent, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and technical excellence
Qualification
Required
11+ years' experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python
OR Associate's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 10+ years' experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python
OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field AND 9+ years' experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python
OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 7+ years' experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python
OR Doctorate in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years' experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python
OR equivalent experience
5+ years people management experience
5+ years of experience developing a strategy and roadmap in partnership with your team and stakeholders
Preferred
Deep understanding of distributed systems performance, including autoscaling, load balancing, and traffic shaping for inference workloads
Proven track record of building and scaling engineering organizations in high-growth or ambiguous environments
Experience collaborating across product, design, and engineering to align technical strategy with business outcomes
Experience leading internal teams and managing platforms focused on observability and/or reliability
Benefits
Annual bonus
Stock
Competitive pay
Generous learning and growth opportunities
Excellent benefits
Company
GitHub
GitHub is a software company that offers code hosting services that allow developers to build software for open-source and private projects. It is a sub-organization of Microsoft.
501-1000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$350MKey Investors
Sequoia CapitalAndreessen Horowitz
2018-06-03Acquired
2015-07-29Series B· $250M
2015-06-19Secondary Market
Leadership Team
PJ Hyett
Co-Founder
Kyle Daigle
Chief Operating Officer
Recent News
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