[Remote] Staff Engineering Manager, Licensing

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. GitHub is a leading platform for agentic software development powered by Copilot. The Staff Engineering Manager will lead the Licensing team in developing secure, scalable, and cost-effective systems for license management, subscription access, product enablement, usage tracking, and billing. The role also involves driving architecture and delivery strategy, managing team performance, resolving complex production incidents, and developing engineering talent.

Responsibilities

• Guide teams in creating technical solutions for licensing and subscription access, ensuring designs are cost-effective and meet security and compliance requirements
• Develop and enforce code review guidelines that adhere to GitHub's quality standards, ensuring reliability, accuracy, and scalability of usage tracking and downstream billing
• Drive project plans, release plans, and work items in coordination with Product and cross-org stakeholders to ensure resources are allocated effectively
• Guide efforts to optimize deployments across products and components, ensuring solutions are deployed safely and adhere to GitHub's deployment standards
• Act as an escalation point for live service operations on systems with direct revenue and compliance impact, providing technical guidance to resolve complex incidents
• Oversee the development and reuse of software developer tools to support code creation, debugging, and maintenance
• Lead and manage team performance, driving employee development and ensuring the team's skills remain current with industry developments
• Serve as a technical and organizational leader beyond your immediate team, influencing architecture and practices across the broader organization
• Lead initiatives to enhance quality assurance processes, ensuring products meet the highest standards of quality and reliability before release
• Hire, coach, and retain top engineering talent, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous learning

Skills

• 9+ years' experience in software engineering, computer science, or a 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, 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 the languages above, + 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 the languages above, + OR master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, 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 the languages above, + OR doctorate in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, 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 the languages above, + OR equivalent experience
• 3+ years people management experience
• Strong system design and architecture skills, with experience in resilient system design, technology selection, and cloud-native, event-driven distributed systems (e.g., Azure or similar cloud platforms, event streaming/pub-sub, async job processing); direct experience with Azure, Cosmos DB, or Go is a plus but not required
• Experience leading large, diverse engineering teams in a fast-paced environment, with a track record of successfully delivering complex projects on time and within budget
• Experience developing customer-facing product experiences, with a strong understanding of UX principles and the ability to incorporate customer feedback into full-stack product development
• Experience with billing, metering, licensing, or other systems with direct financial/compliance impact

Benefits

• Annual bonus and stock
• Sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee's role
• Remote-first work arrangement
• Competitive pay
• Generous learning and growth opportunities
• Excellent benefits to support you, wherever you are

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