Principal Engineering Manager

About the role

As a Principal Engineering Manager on the GitHub Developer Experience (DX) team, you will lead a team responsible for foundational systems and services that power GitHub’s internal engineering and development workflows. DX focuses on improving how GitHub engineering teams build, test, and ship software across the company—operating at significant scale and complexity.

What you'll do

• Collaborating with engineering teams, product management, customers, and engineering leadership to align on and understand the problems we want to solve
• Unblocking obstacles for your team members as they solve GitHub’s most critical problems
• Communicating effectively to stakeholders and leadership of progress and risks
• Coordinating work within the team and stakeholders, building relationships, and identifying opportunities and areas of improvement
• Ensuring the team produces good architectural design outcomes, secure and resilient systems, and quality code

What you need

• 9–16 years in software engineering
• Python
• JavaScript
• Java
• C++
• C#
• Git
• M.Sc or B.Tech or B.E. or B.Sc or BCA or M.Tech or MCA

Good to have

• CI/CD
• Incident response
• Go
• Ruby
• Rust
• C