Principal Software Engineering Manager- GitHub India
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Asa PrincipalEngineering Manager on the GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES) Release team you will lead the team responsible for critical parts of the GHES release pipeline. This includes OS and container builds across the platform infrastructure and application layers; package generation and certification; integration test environments; and distribution of release artifacts through Azure AWS and GCP.
In this role you will define technical and operational priorities for the team drive execution across a complex release surface and partner across engineering organizations to ensure GHES ships as a high-quality secure and dependable appliance for enterprise customers.
Responsibilities
Lead grow and develop a team of engineers responsible for GHES release systems validation environments and package delivery workflows.
Own the engineering roadmap for GHES release systems balancing reliability velocity operational health and long-term platform investments.
Drive execution across build package generation validation certification and customer delivery workflows for GHES releases.
Ensure the team delivers reliable representative and scalable integration test environments that support continuous validation of GHES releases.
Drive improvements in CI quality signal reliability issue detection and triage partnering across teams to improve release readiness and reduce time to resolution.
Partner with engineering leaders acrossplatform infrastructure application and release teams to improve release readiness debugging and root-cause analysis.
Establish and drive standardsforreleasereliability observability compliance and operational excellence across build release and certification workflows.
Set investment priorities for the GHES Release team balancing immediate delivery needs with long-term improvements in reliability efficiency and engineering velocity.
Build an inclusive high-performingteamculture grounded in accountability collaboration technical excellence and continuous improvement.
Ensure strong operational ownership of release infrastructure including clear accountability effective incident response and continuous improvement following critical issues.
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 technicaldirectionand 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 managing teams responsible forreleaseengineeringbuildsystems CI/CD or validation infrastructure.
Experience leading teams that support enterprise on-prem or appliance-based software delivery.
Experience driving strategy and execution across multiple dependent engineering teams.
Experience building organizational capability through coaching hiring and team design.
Experience partnering acrossplatform infrastructure application and release organizations in a highly cross-functional environment.
Experience improving operational health reliability and delivery predictability for business-critical engineering systems.
Experienceestablishingstrong operating rhythms prioritization processes and execution mechanisms for complex engineering areas.
Experience leading teams through ambiguity and driving alignment across stakeholders with differing priorities.
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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.
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