Staff Engineering Manager: Actions Runtime

GitHub is changing the way the world builds software, and we want you to help build GitHub! We’re looking for an experienced software engineering manager to lead the GitHub Actions Runtime team.

Actions is a core part of GitHub and enables developers around the world. Millions of GitHub customers rely on your team's work every single day. Actions Runtime team is responsible for actions runner management experience, tools and systems that enable customers to host their own runners. 

You will also be involved in the design, rollout and support of a highly performant, highly scalable and highly available services and infrastructure with your team and product partners. Together we are creating the tools and products that are integral to how people build software. We pride ourselves on being thoughtful, intentional, and productive. We hope you do as well.

Responsibilities:

• Help ensure that individuals on the team are learning, growing and advancing in their respective careers through mentorship, pairing, and delegating work
• Participate in hiring and sourcing to build a diverse high performance engineering team
• Cultivate an environment across the company where team members are empowered and demonstrate a strong sense of ownership and belonging
• Work with the team to develop, communicate, and track progress against long term plans
• Coordinate with engineering, product and design leadership to define and prioritize projects that help us meet business objectives
• Ensure the team, the company and the community have a clear understanding of the direction of the projects and the reasoning behind decisions
• Think creatively while balancing technical constraints and customer needs to enable your team to build architecturally consistent, high quality software to reliably meet customer needs and exceed their expectations
• Support a highly available service used by millions of users on a daily basis
• Own and advocate for the health and quality of the systems that the team builds, participate in a manager on-call rotation, and respond to incidents as necessary
• Drive data driven improvements to both product quality and engineering efficiency

Qualifications:

• 2+ years of experience leading engineering teams delivering high availability, enterprise grade services
• 8+ years of experience developing web applications or large scale systems.
• Experience in C# (.NET core), Go, or Ruby is a plus.
• Experience with SQL, general database knowledge
• Passionate about fostering good engineering practices and processes
• Experience developing a strategy and roadmap for your teams
• Experience with hiring & building teams
• Demonstrated design skills for large scale and highly available cloud services or distributed systems
• Experience with maintaining production systems including: monitoring, observability and diagnosing problems
• Excellent analytical skills as well as communication skills both verbal and written. We’re a distributed team so we’re extra mindful about communication.
• Strong customer focus and data driven approach
• At least 1 year of remote work experience leading a distributed software team

Minimum salary of $118,100 to maximum $313,300.

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.

Location: In this role, you can work remotely from anywhere in the United States or onsite in one of GitHub’s U.S. offices (San Francisco, Bellevue, Raleigh).

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