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Locations:
In this role you can work from Remote, United Kingdom
Overview:
GitHub is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead and grow a distributed engineering team (across Europe, US and Canada) in the GitHub code scanning group. We are passionate about ensuring the security and quality of the world’s software - from open source to the enterprise. We believe that the best way to secure and improve the quality of software is to detect actionable issues early in the development process and actively facilitate their remediation as part of the developer workflow.
Our team develops the CodeQL detection engine — GitHub's semantic code analysis technology that powers the GitHub Code Scanning product, used by hundreds of thousands of developers daily as part of GitHub's Advanced Security offering. Leveraging world-class static analysis research, CodeQL deeply analyses code to detect security vulnerabilities and correctness errors early across 10 supported languages, including C/C++, C#, Go, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Kotlin, Python, Ruby, and Swift. The team is responsible for how CodeQL understands code across these languages: we build and maintain the extractors that produce CodeQL databases and the libraries that model each language's structure and semantics. We maintain consistent feature coverage and support frequent language-version updates to keep CodeQL broadly available.
You’ll create the conditions for teams to succeed by establishing effective development and quality practices, supporting thoughtful design and dependency management, and championing proactive approaches to reliability, testing, and operational health. As a senior people leader, you’ll coach and develop engineers and managers, model strong collaboration, and foster a culture of learning, ownership, and continuous improvement
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 we meet SLOs and postmortems drive systemic improvements.
Qualifications:
Required Qualifications
6+ 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 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 Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ 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 2+ 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.
OR equivalent experience.
1+ year(s) people management experience
Preferred Qualifications
2+ years of experience with one or more of the following areas:
- Experience building developer tools that operate on source code, such as compilers, parsers, linters, static analyzers, debuggers, CLI tools, or IDE extensions.
- Software security, including static analysis, dynamic analysis, software supply chain security, and best practices in creating high-quality, secure code.
- Machine learning applied to understanding source code or other structured data, specifically using prompt engineering with large language models (LLMs) and systematic benchmarking and evaluation of AI-based systems.
Experience working in and leading a distributed team, including operating effectively across multiple time zones (our teams span a wide time zone range from Pacific time to Central European time), recruiting, retaining team members, managing performance, calibrating expectations, providing feedback, and teaching/mentoring others.
Ability to work with multiple stakeholders and teams across engineering, product, and design, and create a shared understanding of decision making, direction, priorities, and progress between the team, the org, and the broader company.
Industry or research knowledge of compilers, program analysis, programming language design and implementation.
Knowledge of logic programming or database query languages (e.g. SQL, Prolog, Datalog, Kusto Query Language).
Experience building integrations with CI/CD systems, such as GitHub Actions or Jenkins and experience operating user-facing software at scale, including availability, observability, and security fundamentals.
GitHub Leadership Principles:
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
Who We Are:
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:
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