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GitHub · 21 hours ago

Staff Engineering Manager-DX, Build & Test

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$140K/yr - $372K/yr

7+ years exp

GitHub is the world’s leading platform for agentic software development. The Developer Experience (DX) organization is seeking a Staff Engineering Manager to lead the Build and Test team, responsible for foundational systems that power GitHub’s internal development workflows, focusing on improving how engineers build, test, and ship software.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsInternetProject ManagementSaaSSoftware

Comp. & Benefits

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

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

Qualification

Software EngineeringCI/CD systemsPeople managementProduction software codingIncident responseCross-team collaborationTest infrastructureQuality challengesObservability

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 people management experience

Preferred

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

Benefits

Annual bonus

Stock

Learning and growth opportunities

Company

GitHub

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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

H1B Sponsorship

GitHub has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)

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Trends of Total Sponsorships

2025 (26)

2024 (17)

2023 (14)

2022 (20)

2021 (20)

2020 (10)

Funding

Current Stage

Late Stage

Total Funding

$350M

Key Investors

Sequoia CapitalAndreessen Horowitz

2018-06-03Acquired

2015-07-29Series B· $250M

2015-06-19Secondary Market

Leadership Team

PJ Hyett

Co-Founder

Kyle Daigle

Chief Operating Officer

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