GitHub · 20 hours ago
Principal Engineering Manager, Data Engineering
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$160K/yr - $425K/yr
5+ years expGitHub is the world’s leading platform for agentic software development, and they are seeking a Principal Engineering Manager to join the Data Engineering team. This role focuses on improving GitHub’s engineering processes, systems, and architecture while providing guidance to engineering leadership and the organization.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsInternetProject ManagementSaaSSoftware
Responsibilities
Drive department-wide conversations around technical issues and engineering practices, suggesting improvements and ideas as you see them
Ensure the team builds software that is architecturally consistent and of high quality, establishing patterns and best practices for the organization
Coordinate with engineering and product leads to define, prioritize, and task projects that help us meet business objectives
Provide technical leadership, mentorship, pairing opportunities, and code reviews to encourage the growth of others
Help cultivate an environment where team members are empowered and demonstrate a strong sense of ownership and belonging
Collaborating with other Engineering Managers to define the future of GitHub engineering and working together to implement that vision
Collaborating with design, analytics, support, and product management to understand the problems we want to solve and exploring how we can solve them
Digging in to the most important issues the department is tackling by asking questions, creating plans, recognizing pitfalls, and raising concerns
Discussing and collaboratively solving engineering and product problems with engineering collaborators in Slack or Zoom
Supporting company-wide initiatives
Bringing key plans and execution ideas to the management team
Mentoring other engineers at all experience levels
Responding to issues and review requests from other teams at GitHub
Reviewing your teammates' Pull Requests and providing helpful feedback
Serve as an engineering representative for critical customer conversations to discover what they love and what their pain points are
Embedding in a squad periodically to enable others to tackle challenges and stretch assignments
As a part of Engineering technical leadership, advising on key initiatives, gaps, and technical blind spots
Qualification
Required
11+ 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 10+ 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 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 Master's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, 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 PhD 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 equivalent experience
5+ years people management experience
Preferred
Experience with managing and designing a data strategy and leading the development of its core components by building and optimizing scalable data pipelines, integrations, and robust data models that solve complex business challenges
Experience working closely with product management, design, and other engineering teams to drive cross-functional projects and deliver high-quality products
Experience in one or more scripting languages (e.g., Bash, Python, or a similar language)
Experience with cloud environments and/or Cloud Native Compute Foundation (CNCF) concepts
Experience working with both relational (e.g. mysql) and most importantly non-relational datastores (e.g. Cosmos) as well as operating Cosmos DB clusters at scale
Experience working with Azure resourcing such as Azure Storage (blob and table particularly), Azure Redis Cache, Azure Data Explorer Clusters
Benefits
Annual bonus
Stock
Competitive pay
Generous learning and growth opportunities
Excellent benefits
Company
GitHub
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.
501-1000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$350MKey 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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