Staff Engineering Manager, Copilot Platform
GitHub
Full-time
Remote
Responsibilities
A day in the life:
Our team is distributed worldwide which means we work both asynchronously and real-time. Managers at GitHub directly manage engineers and we allow for this track to grow in complexity within the product and technology offerings. We separate this track from our Director roles who manage people managers and tend to focus on breadth. This role is for a platform team within the Copilot organization. Your typical week would include:
Collaborating with internal and external engineering teams, product management, platform 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, often via real-time conversations in Slack or Zoom, and with asynchronous communication in GitHub Issues, PRs, Discussions, and Projects
Communicating effectively to support internal users, and inform stakeholders of progress as well as system status and team health
Conducting 1:1s with direct reports to provide regular feedback and ensure career growth and progression, coordinating work within the team and stakeholders, building relationships, and identifying opportunities and areas of improvement
Ensuring the team produces good architectural design outcomes, resilient systems, and quality code
Ensuring the team iteratively ships features and bug fixes; balancing speed to market with future velocity
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
8+ years experience building and shipping software using a variety of technology stacks, building large scale systems, or equivalent experience
5+ years of experience managing engineering teams in complex systems.
5+ Experience developing a strategy and roadmap in partnership with your team and stakeholders
5+ Experience communicating with high-level stakeholders and executing large initiatives in an iterative fashion
Preferred Qualification
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Passionate about fostering good engineering practices and processes
Experience managing platform teams
Experience with delivering products in the artificial intelligence space
Experience working with research or applied scientists
A day in the life:
Our team is distributed worldwide which means we work both asynchronously and real-time. Managers at GitHub directly manage engineers and we allow for this track to grow in complexity within the product and technology offerings. We separate this track from our Director roles who manage people managers and tend to focus on breadth. This role is for a platform team within the Copilot organization. Your typical week would include:
Collaborating with internal and external engineering teams, product management, platform 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, often via real-time conversations in Slack or Zoom, and with asynchronous communication in GitHub Issues, PRs, Discussions, and Projects
Communicating effectively to support internal users, and inform stakeholders of progress as well as system status and team health
Conducting 1:1s with direct reports to provide regular feedback and ensure career growth and progression, coordinating work within the team and stakeholders, building relationships, and identifying opportunities and areas of improvement
Ensuring the team produces good architectural design outcomes, resilient systems, and quality code
Ensuring the team iteratively ships features and bug fixes; balancing speed to market with future velocity
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
8+ years experience building and shipping software using a variety of technology stacks, building large scale systems, or equivalent experience
5+ years of experience managing engineering teams in complex systems.
5+ Experience developing a strategy and roadmap in partnership with your team and stakeholders
5+ Experience communicating with high-level stakeholders and executing large initiatives in an iterative fashion
Preferred Qualification
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Passionate about fostering good engineering practices and processes
Experience managing platform teams
Experience with delivering products in the artificial intelligence space
Experience working with research or applied scientists