Principal Software Engineering Manager- GitHub India

As a Principal Engineering Manager on the GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES) Release team, you will lead the team responsible for critical parts of the GHES release pipeline. This includes OS and container builds across the platform, infrastructure, and application layers; package generation and certification; integration test environments; and distribution of release artifacts through Azure, AWS, and GCP.

In this role, you will define technical and operational priorities for the team, drive execution across a complex release surface, and partner across engineering organizations to ensure GHES ships as a high-quality, secure, and dependable appliance for enterprise customers.

Responsibilities

• Lead, grow, and develop a team of engineers responsible for GHES release systems, validation environments, and package delivery workflows.
• Own the engineering roadmap for GHES release systems, balancing reliability, velocity, operational health, and long-term platform investments.
• Drive execution across build, package generation, validation, certification, and customer delivery workflows for GHES releases.
• Ensure the team delivers reliable, representative, and scalable integration test environments that support continuous validation of GHES releases.
• Drive improvements in CI quality, signal reliability, issue detection, and triage, partnering across teams to improve release readiness and reduce time to resolution.
• Partner with engineering leaders across platform, infrastructure, application, and release teams to improve release readiness, debugging, and root-cause analysis.
• Establish and drive standards for release reliability, observability, compliance, and operational excellence across build, release, and certification workflows.
• Set investment priorities for the GHES Release team, balancing immediate delivery needs with long-term improvements in reliability, efficiency, and engineering velocity.
• Build an inclusive, high-performing team culture grounded in accountability, collaboration, technical excellence, and continuous improvement.
• Ensure strong operational ownership of release infrastructure, including clear accountability, effective incident response, and continuous improvement following critical issues.

Required Qualifications:

• 9+ years' experience in software engineering, computer science, or related technical discipline
• Proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, Go, Ruby, Rust, Python, JavaScript, C, C++, C#, Java,
• 3+ years’ experience leading engineering teams delivering complex infrastructure, platform, release, or validation systems.
• Experience setting technical direction and driving execution across multiple engineers or teams in a complex cross-functional environment.
• Proven ability to hire, coach, and develop engineers while maintaining high standards for technical quality and operational excellence.
• Proven ability to partner across organizations, align stakeholders, and improve reliability, delivery predictability, and engineering effectiveness for business-critical systems.
• Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, or related field

• Experience managing teams responsible for release engineering, build systems, CI/CD, or validation infrastructure.
• Experience leading teams that support enterprise, on-prem, or appliance-based software delivery.
• Experience driving strategy and execution across multiple dependent engineering teams.
• Experience building organizational capability through coaching, hiring, and team design.
• Experience partnering across platform, infrastructure, application, and release organizations in a highly cross-functional environment.
• Experience improving operational health, reliability, and delivery predictability for business-critical engineering systems.
• Experience establishing strong operating rhythms, prioritization processes, and execution mechanisms for complex engineering areas.
• Experience leading teams through ambiguity and driving alignment across stakeholders with differing priorities.

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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