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Staff Engineering Manager, Data Engineering
United States · Staff+
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About the role
- GitHub is seeking a Staff Engineering Manager to join the Data Engineering team, which runs the largest code-hosting platform in the world, part of our Platform and Enterprise org.
- Our group is highly distributed and the right candidate will thrive in an environment of asynchronous communication.
- This role is focused on wide-reaching, cross-team work to improve GitHub's engineering processes, systems, and architecture.
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
- Collaborating with design, analytics, support, and product management to understand the problems we want to solve and exploring how we can solve them
- Own the outcome
- Create clarity
- Deliver success
Requirements
- 3+ years people management experience.
Nice to have
- 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.
- Compensation Range
- These pay ranges are intended to cover roles based across the United States.
- 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.
Skills
- About GitHub
- In this role you can work from Remote, United States
Compensation
- 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.
Benefits
- Collaborating with other Engineering Managers to define the future of GitHub engineering and working together to implement that vision
Company info
- 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 (and 99% of the world's software has open-source code in its DNA).
- Many of the apps and programs you use every day are built on GitHub.
- 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.
- Join us, and let's change the world, together.
- 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!
Visa & Work Authorization
- ployees 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
This listing is sourced directly from GitHub's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.