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Locations
In this role you can work from Remote, Ontario Canada | Remote, British Columbia Canada | Remote, Alberta Canada
Overview
We’re looking for a Staff Engineering Manager to lead GitHub’s Web Systems team; the group responsible for architecting and maintaining the frontend infrastructure that powers GitHub.com. This team builds and owns the platform that enables product engineers to ship accessible, performant, and scalable UI by default. Web Systems maintains the UI build and delivery pipeline, including monorepo tooling, server-side rendering (SSR) infrastructure, frontend CI/CD, and performance observability. The team’s work is foundational to every web product team at GitHub. By delivering an opinionated and intuitive developer experience, Web Systems makes it easy to build modern, high-quality web applications at scale. This is a rare opportunity to lead a high-leverage team and shape the systems, standards, and priorities that influence how GitHub builds for the web—driving quality not only through infrastructure, but through culture and clarity.
Responsibilities
As Staff Engineering Manager you will:
- Lead and coach a high-performing team of engineers responsible for GitHub’s frontend infrastructure.
- Drive the roadmap and delivery of core systems such as modern build tooling, SSR infrastructure, monorepo management, and frontend observability.
- Help product and engineering leaders understand the impact of platform investments by making invisible infrastructure work visible, measurable, and connected to user and business outcomes.
- Partner with platform teams, product engineering, and leadership to align on priorities, identify pain points, and drive adoption of best practices across the organization.
- Maintain and evolve critical systems such as the UI asset pipeline, testing infrastructure, and deployment automation.
- Foster a culture of inclusive collaboration, engineering excellence, and continuous improvement.
- Help guide architectural decisions that support GitHub’s long-term scale, accessibility, and performance goals.
A Day in the Life
- Collaborate daily with internal engineering teams, product management, and engineering leadership to align on priorities and deeply understand the problems we need to solve.
- Coordinate cross-functionally to reduce friction, scale best practices, and steer the organization toward unified infrastructure approaches.
- Unblock obstacles for your team ensuring engineers stay focused on solving meaningful problems.
- Run regular 1:1s with direct reports to provide clear, actionable feedback and support career growth and progression.
- Shape the team's roadmap and execution strategy, making sure foundational infrastructure work moves forward with clarity and purpose.
- Communicate effectively with stakeholders—keeping them informed of project milestones, team health, system performance, and risk areas.
- Review architectural proposals and implementation plans to ensure the team delivers resilient systems and high-quality code.
- Maintain high team velocity by balancing thoughtful design with fast iteration—shipping features, fixes, and infrastructure improvements continuously.
- Model and reinforce a culture of engineering excellence, inclusion, and continuous learning.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- 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 Associate’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 8+ 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 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 Master'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 Doctorate in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ 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
- 3+ years of experience managing engineering and platform infrastructure teams to deliver, operate, and scale complex systems for multiple internal users
- 3+ years of experience working with modern frontend frameworks (e.g., React) and build tools (e.g., Vite, Webpack)
- 3+ years of experience designing or maintaining CI/CD pipelines for frontend applications
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience managing large-scale frontend systems and UI monorepos
- Familiarity with SSR infrastructure and service worker patterns
- Experience with accessibility, web performance, and internationalization best practices
- Proficiency with observability tools such as Datadog, Sentry, and client-side telemetry systems
- Experience collaborating with distributed, cross-functional teams at scale
Tech Your Team Works With
- Languages: TypeScript, JavaScript, Ruby
- Frameworks & Tooling: React, Vite, Webpack, ESLint, Vitest
- Testing & CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Jest, Vitest, Playwright, Puppeteer
- Observability: Datadog, Sentry, internal telemetry pipelines
- Monorepo & Build: npm workspaces, internal CLI tools
- SSR & Delivery: Node-based SSR infrastructure, service workers
GitHub Leadership Principles
GitHub values
- Customer-obsessed
- Ship to learn
- Growth mindset
- Own the outcome
- Better together
- Diverse and inclusive
Manager fundamentals
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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