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Senior Director, Software Engineering

GitHub

Ashburn , Virginia , 20149

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Salary:

$134,800 - $357,500 Year

Job type:

Monday to Friday

Job Schedule:

Day shift

Job benefits:

Health insurance
Paid time off
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
401(k)
Flexible schedule
Parental Leave
Retirement plan
Others

Description:

8+ years of experience designing, developing, and shipping high quality software at scale

5+ years of engineering people management experience including 3+ years as a manager of managers

Experience building engineering systems for internal and external use and driving engineering strategy and long-term roadmap, taking into account organization design and scaling teams sustainably

Deep experience running distributed systems, cloud services and driving operational excellence

We’re a distributed team so we’re extra mindful about communication

Demonstrated ability to attract talent to build highly functional technical teams, with a strong track record of managing performance, calibrating expectations, and building and maintaining a high performing organizationThis includes ownership of our deployment systems, operational tooling, feature flag systems, developer portal, and Kubernetes infrastructure for running microservices

You will own the strategic management of the department, representing the engineering systems to external and internal partners and driving major decisions that enable engineers at GitHub to be even more productive and set the example for the world on how to build and ship software using GitHub

Own organizational vision & objectives with leaders across Product, Design, and Engineering

Think creatively while balancing technical constraints and customer needs to enable your team to build architecturally consistent, high quality software to reliably meet customer needs and exceed their expectations

Ensure that individuals on the team are learning, growing and advancing in their respective careers through mentorship, pairing, and delegating work

Foster an environment that strives for clear communication, accessibility, and understanding

Own and advocate for the health and quality of the systems that the team builds, participate in a manager on-call rotation, and respond to incidents as necessary

Ensure the team, the company and the community have a clear understanding of the direction of the projects and the reasoning behind decisions

Drive data driven improvements to both product quality and engineering excellence and efficiency across your organization

Skill:

Communication
Leadership
Teamwork
Learning/adaptability
Self-management
Organizational
Computer
Problem solving
Open mindedness
Strong work ethic
technology
Others

Others Requirements:

3 years
8 years
10 years

Category:

Construction

Positions:

3

Location:

Hybrid Remote