[Remote] Principal Engineering Manager

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. GitHub is the world’s leading platform for agentic software development, and they are seeking a Principal 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.

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
• Oversee capacity planning and dynamic traffic shaping to ensure performance, reliability, and compliance
• 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
• Work with architects to shape GitHub’s long-term vision for AI infrastructure, identifying opportunities for innovation and leading initiatives that scale globally

Skills

• 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 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 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 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 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 PhD 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 equivalent experience
• 5+ years people management experience
• 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

Benefits

• Annual bonus
• Stock
• Opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee's role
• Generous learning and growth opportunities
• Excellent benefits to support you, wherever you are

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