[Hiring] Staff Engineering Manager GitHub CoPilot API @GitHub, Inc.

Role Description

GitHub is looking for a Staff Engineering Manager to lead the development of the GitHub Copilot AI inference platform. This role involves overseeing the allocation and deployment of GitHub's AI resources, managing high-throughput service infrastructure for inference workloads, and improving the experiment-to-production pipeline. This includes operating orchestration frameworks that support generative AI workloads at scale. The ideal candidate will possess a strategic vision, technical leadership in distributed systems and generative AI serving architectures, as well as the ability to mentor their immediate reporting engineers, build an empowered high-trust team, and foster a culture of technical excellence and experimentation.

The AI infrastructure at GitHub is crucial for the future of software development. As Staff Engineering Manager, you will lead the team responsible for this foundation, ensuring efficient, secure, and business-aligned resource deployment.

This is a unique opportunity to shape the systems powering Copilot and other AI-driven experiences globally. We foster a culture that prioritizes developer empathy, transparency, and inclusive collaboration, where curiosity and impact drive our development efforts.

Responsibilities

• Drive and support technical roadmap that aligns with product goals, ensuring that engineering efforts are strategically prioritized and incorporating the adoption of new technologies and methodologies where applicable.
• Facilitate cross-team communications, identify dependencies, and resolve conflicts to ensure seamless integration and support across products, applications, and services.
• Drive employee growth and development, manage performance, and ensure the engineering team's skills remain current by staying abreast of industry developments and best practices.
• Guide teams in designing scalable, secure, and observable systems that meet business and technical requirements.
• Champion experimentation and telemetry-driven development, enabling rapid iteration and data-informed decisions.
• Drive engineering excellence through automation, tooling, and standardization across deployment, testing, and operations.
• Own incident response and reliability practices, ensuring live services meet SLOs and postmortems drive systemic improvements.

Qualifications

• 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 Qualifications

• Experience in one or more scripting languages (e.g., Bash, Python, or a similar language), technologies and software platforms (e.g., Ruby, React, Go, Javascript/typescript, MySQL, cosmosDB, Elasticsearch), front-end frameworks (e.g., React.js), and/or telemetry dashboard (e.g., Datadog, Sentry, Azure Data Explorer).
• Experience with cloud environments and/or Cloud Native Compute Foundation (CNCF) concepts.
• Demonstrated experience with large-scale system architecture and design, particularly in cloud-based environments, with a strong understanding of distributed systems and microservices.
• Experience working closely with product management, design, and other engineering teams to drive cross-functional projects and deliver high-quality products.

Compensation Range

The base salary range for this job is USD $140,400.00 - USD $372,300.00 /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. 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

Manager Fundamentals

• Model
• Coach
• Care

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. Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you; we're happy to accommodate!