[Hiring] Sr Director, Software Engineering @GitHub, Inc.

Role Description

The Developer Experience (DX) department at GitHub is seeking an experienced Sr. Software Engineering Director to lead the development of foundational components that power GitHub products. This strategic role oversees a group dedicated to ensuring the quality and reliability of service life cycles, with a focus on quality and day-two operations.

• Building frameworks and tools that maintain the ongoing quality and operational excellence of GitHub’s services.
• Driving best practices, developing high-performance solutions, and implementing safe production operations strategies.
• Owning and evolving company-wide observability and monitoring solutions.
• Delivering critical safety features such as feature flagging and experimentations.
• Guiding a globally distributed team of managers and engineers.
• Enhancing and scaling products to deliver an exceptional experience that meets the unique needs of our diverse customer base.
• Empowering the team to create innovative solutions and drive long-term positive strategic outcomes for GitHub.

Qualifications

• 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.
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field AND 9+ years' experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline.
• 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.
• OR Doctorate 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.
• OR equivalent experience.
• 5+ years people management experience.
• 5+ years of experience developing a strategy and roadmap in partnership with your team and stakeholders.

Requirements

• Deep understanding of distributed systems performance, including autoscaling, load balancing, and traffic shaping for inference workloads.
• Proven track record of building and scaling engineering organizations in high-growth or ambiguous environments.
• Experience collaborating across product, design, and engineering to align technical strategy with business outcomes.
• Experience leading internal teams and managing platforms focused on observability and/or reliability.

Compensation Range

The base salary range for this job is USD $160,200.00 - USD $425,000.00 /Yr. These pay ranges are intended to cover roles based across the United States. An individual's base pay depends on various factors including geographical location and review of experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant.

Benefits

At GitHub certain roles are eligible for benefits and additional rewards, including annual bonus and stock. These rewards are allocated based on individual impact in role. In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee's role.

GitHub values

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

Leadership principles

• Create clarity
• Generate energy
• Deliver success

EEO Statement

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. We don't discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences.