Principal Engineering Manager
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Job Summary
As a Principal Engineering Manager on the GitHubDeveloper Experience (DX)team you will leadateamresponsible forfoundational systems andservicesthat power GitHubs internalengineering and development workflows.DX focuses on improving how GitHub engineering teamsbuild test and ship software across the companyoperatingatsignificantscale and complexity. Our work spans CI/CD platforms developer tooling virtualized infrastructure and the paved paths that enable teams to move quickly whilemaintainingreliability and security.
We providethe tooling services and operational support that allow engineers to deliver changes to production safely and efficiently. This includes runninghighly available company-wide CI platforms; partnering closely with application and platform teams to improve reliability and performance; and continuously reducing friction in thedeveloperworkflow. The team plays a critical role inmaintainingtrust in GitHubs build and test infrastructure while balancing speed scale and stability.
GitHubs continued growth brings both opportunity and complexity. As aPrincipalEngineering Manager in this role you will lead a team operating mission-critical systems in a fast-moving closely with engineers across the company to improve CI reliability reduce test flakiness respond to incidents and evolve our platforms to meet the needs of a rapidly scaling organization. This role blendspeopleleadership technical depth and operational ownership with a direct impact on the daily experience of GitHub engineers and the quality of the products used by millions of developers worldwide.
Responsibilities
Our team is distributedworldwidewhich means we work both asynchronouslyandreal-time. Your typical week would include:
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 GitHubs most critical problems often via real-time conversations in Slack or Zoom and with asynchronous communication in GitHub Issues PRs Discussions and Projects
Communicating effectively to stakeholders and leadership of progress and risks
Coordinating work within the team and stakeholders building relationships andidentifyingopportunities and areas of improvement
Ensuring the team produces good architectural design outcomes secure and resilient systems and quality code
Ensuring the team iteratively ships features and bug fixes balancing speed to market with future velocity
Conducting 1:1s with direct reports to provide regular feedback and ensure career growth and progression
Qualifications
RequiredQualifications:
9 years experience in software engineering computer science or related technical discipline
Proven experiencemaintainingand delivering production software coding in languages including but not limited to Go Ruby Rust Python JavaScript C C C# Java
3 yearsexperience leading engineering teams delivering complex infrastructure platform release or validation systems.
Experience setting technical direction and driving execution across multiple engineers or teams in a complex cross-functional environment.
Proven ability to hire coach and develop engineers whilemaintaininghigh standardsfor technical quality and operational excellence.
Proven ability to partner across organizations align stakeholders and improve reliability delivery predictability and engineering effectiveness for business-critical systems.
Bachelors orMasters degree in Computer ScienceElectrical Engineering Electronics Engineering Math Physics Computer Engineering or related field
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience leading or owning large-scale CI/CD and build systems including monolith ormonorepoenvironments with a focus on reliability performance and developer experience.
Proven ability to run operationally critical platforms including incident response on-call leadership observability and cross-org escalation.
Track recordof cross-team collaboration and influence working with application owners and platform teams to drive best practices and paved paths.
Familiarity with test infrastructure and quality challenges at scale including diagnosing CI failures and reducing flaky tests.
Experienced people manager able to balance execution operational stability and long-term platform investment in complex high-change environments.
Experience driving strategy and execution across multiple dependent engineering teams.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Passionate about fostering good engineering practices and processes
Experience recruiting andretaininghealthy teams managing performance and calibrating expectations
Experience working remotely and collaborating with distributed teams.
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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age ancestry citizenship color family or medical care leave gender identity or expression genetic information immigration status marital status medical condition national origin physical or mental disability political affiliation protected veteran or military status race ethnicity religion sex (including pregnancy) sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process read more about requesting accommodations.
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