Dir, Software Engineering

at  GITHUB INC

About GitHub: As the global home for all developers, GitHub is the complete AI-powered developer platform to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 100 million people, including developers from 90 of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to build amazing things together across 330+ million repositories. With all the collaborative features of GitHub, it has never been easier for individuals and teams to write faster, better code.
Locations: In this role you can work from Remote, United States
Overview:
We are looking for a Software Engineering Director to lead the development of foundational components for GitHub products. This role is critical in a fast-paced environment where you can make a high-impact contribution to our product offerings. As a Software Engineering Director, you’ll guide a globally distributed team of managers and engineers, enhancing and scaling our products to deliver an exceptional experience that meets the unique needs of our diverse customer base. A Director leading this team must have a strong balance of people, project, and technical management - flexing their skill sets to empower the team to create innovative solutions and drive long-term positive strategic outcomes for GitHub.
Responsibilities:

• Collaborating with engineering teams, product management, platform customers, and engineering leadership to align on and understand the problems we want to solve and drive long-term strategic outcomes
• Unblocking obstacles for your teams as they solve GitHub’s most critical problems, often via real-time conversations in Slack or Zoom and with asynchronous communication in GitHub Issues, PRs, Discussions, and Projects. Help drive clarity and prioritization across the organization.
• Communicating effectively to support internal and external users and inform stakeholders of progress as well as system status and team health
• Promote best engineering standards and practices, ensuring teams produce good architectural design outcomes, secure and resilient systems, and quality code.
• Ensuring teams iteratively ship features and bug fixes, balancing speed to market with future velocity.
• Hiring and developing talent, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and technical excellenc