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Company

GitHub · 6 hours ago

Director, Software Engineering

United States

Full-time

Remote

Director/Executive

$128K/yr - $338K/yr

9+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Collaborating with engineering teams, product management, platform customers, and engineering leadership to align on and understand the problems we want to solve and drive long-term strategic outcomes

Unblocking obstacles for your teams 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. Help drive clarity and prioritization across the organization.

Communicating effectively to support internal and external users and inform stakeholders of progress as well as system status and team health

Promote best engineering standards and practices, ensuring teams produce good architectural design outcomes, secure and resilient systems, and quality code.

Ensuring teams iteratively ship features and bug fixes, balancing speed to market with future velocity.

Hiring and developing talent, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and technical excellence

Qualification

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CC++C#JavaJavaScriptGoRubyRustPythonManaging engineering managersDeveloping strategyRoadmapCommunicating with stakeholdersKubernetesDevOps PracticesFostering engineering practicesRecruitingRetaining teamsManaging high-scale systems

Required

9+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python

OR Associate’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 8+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python

OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field AND 7+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python

OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python

OR Doctorate in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python

OR equivalent experience

3+ years of experience managing engineering managers

5+ years of experience developing a strategy and roadmap in partnership with your team and stakeholders

Experience communicating with stakeholders and executing large initiatives in an iterative fashion

Preferred

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, working remotely and leading distributed teams

Managing high-scale, complex systems while maintaining a high operational excellence

Experience with Kubernetes and Devops Practices

Benefits

Annual bonus

Stock

Competitive pay

Generous learning and growth opportunities

Excellent benefits

Company

GitHub

Glassdoor

3.8

GitHub is a software company that offers code hosting services that allow developers to build software for open-source and private projects. It is a sub-organization of Microsoft.

Founded in 2008

San Francisco, California, USA

501-1000 employees

https://github.com

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