• United States
• Engineering
• Experienced Professional
• Senior Director
• Yes
• 5165
• Full Time

Job Description

About GitHub

GitHub is the world’s leading platform for agentic software development — powered by Copilot to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 180 million developers, including more than 90% of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to collaborate, and more than 77,000 organisations have adopted GitHub Copilot.

Locations

In this role you can work from Remote, United States

Overview

GitHub is seeking a Principal Engineering Manager to join the Data Architecture Engineering team, which is responsible for the foundational caching and object storage systems that underpin GitHub's performance, reliability, and scale. We own and operate GitHub's Redis-based caching infrastructure and object storage platform — critical services that power low-latency reads, high-throughput writes, and durable storage across the entire product surface.

As a Principal Engineering Manager on this team, you will drive department-wide discussions around the future of caching and Azure paved path at GitHub, establish architectural best practices, and lead a distributed team of engineers building and evolving systems that serve millions of requests per second. You will embed with your team, contribute to architectural decisions, review designs, and help solve the hardest distributed systems problems we face.

We are looking for a seasoned leader with deep expertise in key-value stores, caching infrastructure, and object storage — someone who can define multi-year technical roadmaps, guide complex migrations, and mentor engineers across all levels. You should care as deeply about the people you lead as the systems you build. Principal Engineering Managers are focused on the most impactful work in Platform engineering and provide guidance to engineering leadership and the organization to help build, scale, and maintain GitHub as the home for all developers.

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.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, pairing opportunities, and code reviews to encourage the growth of others.
• Ensure site availability and performance: act as a leader in incident response, working across teams to diagnose and resolve production issues. Maintain monitoring, disaster recovery plans, and compliance postures.
• Work closely with engineering leadership to guide technical investment and implement technical roadmaps and priorities for the caching and object storage platform.

A week in the life of a Principal Engineering Manager might consist of:

• Collaborating with other Engineering Managers and Principal Engineers to define the future of GitHub engineering and working together to implement that vision.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Caching and Key Value storage technologies such as Redis, Memcached.
• Experience with non relational database and document store technologies such as MongoDB, CosmosDB.
• Prior experience migrating from data center to cloud infrastructure.
• Prior experience being on an oncall rotation and working on live-site incidents for large scale distributed systems. Understanding of production system monitoring and observability.
• Experience with cloud platforms like Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services.
• Ability to think critically about both system design and software engineering concepts and blend those perspectives pragmatically based on project needs.

Compensation Range

The base salary range for this job is USD $160,200.00 - USD $425,000.00 /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

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

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!