Staff Mgr, Software Engineering, Codespaces & Copilot Workspace Compute

About GitHub

As the global home for all developers, GitHub is the complete AI-powered developer platform to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 150+ million developers, including more than 90% of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to collaborate and experiment across 420+ million repositories. With all the collaborative features of GitHub, it has never been easier for individuals and teams to write faster, better code.

Locations

In this role you can work from Remote, United Kingdom

Overview

We are seeking a Staff Engineering Manager to join this team and drive the continued evolution of Codespaces, shaping the future of cloud-based development for GitHub and its users. In this role you will play a critical role in shaping and implementing the future of the Codespaces product. You will work directly with developers and customers to help define the future of cloud development environments and AI experiences across GitHub.com. You will work with a strong team of developers to design and build a platform that is secure, reliable and most of all fun to develop on.

Responsibilities

You will lead a talented team of engineers, working collaboratively with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to enhance our product offerings. Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Lead, mentor, and manage a team of software engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.

• Conduct 1-1s, regular performance reviews, provide constructive feedback, and support professional development for team members.

• Working alongside Product Management, Designers, and other stakeholders to perform continuous planning, requirements gathering, and defining the product vision and roadmap.

• Overseeing the development process, ensuring the team adheres to best practices in software development, including code quality, testing, and documentation.

• Facilitate effective communication and collaboration across teams and functions to ensure successful project execution and delivery.

• 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.

• Ensuring the team iteratively ships features and bug fixes; balancing speed to market with future velocity and stability.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Many years of 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#, Rust, Go, JavaScript, Ruby, Python, Java, C, or C++
• Experience managing engineering teams in complex systems
• Some years of experience developing strategies and roadmaps in partnership with your team and stakeholders
• A few years of experience designing, building, scaling and maintaining distributed systems

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong customer focus and a data-driven approach, with proven ability to manage multiple projects and priorities in fast-paced environments
• Extensive experience in testing principles, production system monitoring, observability, and troubleshooting across various layers (e.g., network, application, caching, queuing, load balancing, storage, and distributed services)
• Proficiency in backend technologies, including server-side environments, compute, datastores, networking, infrastructure, DevOps, security, and programming languages
• Experience in cloud-native development, including designing, building, and deploying scalable applications using microservices architecture, containers (e.g., Docker), and orchestration tools like Kubernetes. Proficiency in leveraging cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, or GCP) to optimize performance and scalability
• Interest or experience in modern AI/machine learning technologies, including Large Language Models or similar, and expertise in contributing to technical strategy and roadmaps
• Demonstrated leadership or management experience in remote environments, fostering good engineering practices, high-quality standards, and effective team collaboration
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, paired with excellent verbal and written communication abilities to collaborate effectively across distributed teams
• Passionate about fostering strong engineering practices, processes, and maintaining high standards

Other Qualifications:

• Ability to meet GitHub, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.

GitHub values

• Customer-obsessed
• Ship to learn
• Growth mindset
• Own the outcome
• Better together
• Diverse and inclusive

Manager fundamentals

• Model
• Coach
• Care

Leadership principles

• Create clarity
• Generate energy
• Deliver success

Who We Are

GitHub is the world’s leading AI-powered developer platform with 150 million developers and counting. We’re also home to the biggest open-source community on earth. Our teams are dreamers, doers, and pioneers, leading the way in AI, driving humanitarian efforts around the globe, and even sending open source to Mars (and beyond!). At GitHub, our goal is to create the space you need to do your best work. We’re remote-first and offer competitive pay, generous learning and growth opportunities, and excellent benefits to support you, wherever you are—because we know that people flourish when they can work on their own terms.

Equal Employment Opportunity

GitHub is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We embrace diversity and invite applications from people of all walks of life.