Principal Engineering Manager

Our team is distributed worldwide, which means we work both asynchronously and real-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 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 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 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 9+ years' experience in software engineering, computer science, or related technical discipline Proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, Go, Ruby, Rust, Python, JavaScript, C, C++, C#, Java, 3+ years' experience 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 while maintaining high standards for 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. Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, or related field Experience leading or owning large-scale CI/CD and build systems, including monolith or monorepo environments, 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 record of 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 and retaining healthy teams, managing performance, and calibrating expectations Experience working remotely and collaborating with distributed teams.