Principal Group Engineering Manager

Microsoft -
Hyderabad, Telangana

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Job details

Full-time

Qualifications

BCS
Computer science
Azure
Rust (programming language)
Go
Management
Doctoral degree
Computer Science
C#
Slack
Git
.NET
Java
Master's degree
Bash (Unix shell)
C++
C
Bachelor's degree
JavaScript
Product management
Redis
Mentoring
Scripting
Ruby
Software development
GitHub
Electrical Engineering
Leadership
Python
MySQL

Full job description

Overview

GitHub is growing its Software Engineering team and we’re seeking experienced professionals to enhance our engineering team’s efforts. As a Group Software Engineering Manager, you will collaborate with stakeholders to determine feature requirements and enforce code review standards. The ideal candidate will influence project outcomes through your expertise in architecture design, software development, data analysis, and experience collaborating and communicating effectively with a diverse set of stakeholders.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities:

Engage with project managers and technical leads to determine and refine requirements for features and scenarios, ensuring alignment with customer needs and project goals.

Lead cross team execution and delivery – lead discussions and create proposals for technical solutions, testing design hypotheses, and refining code plans to ensure robust architecture and high-quality outcomes.

Drive architecture, quality and operational excellence for products, services, or features. Mentor team members in best practices for producing maintainable and extensible code.

Identify and manage dependencies, risk and strategic tradeoffs.

Collect, analyze, and integrate data to inform engineering decisions, driving product refinement and ensuring solutions meet performance expectations.

Identify potential risks in projects and develop mitigation strategies to ensure successful project delivery and minimize disruptions.

Partner across functions to align engineering with customer and business needs

Hire, coach, and develop top engineering talent, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous learning.

A week in the life of a Group Software Engineering Manager at GitHub might consist of:

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

Collaborating with design, analytics, support, and product management to understand the problems we want to solve and exploring how we can solve them

Digging into the most important issues the department is tackling by asking questions, creating plans, recognizing pitfalls, and raising concerns

Discussing and collaboratively solving engineering and product problems with engineering collaborators in Slack or Teams

Supporting company-wide initiatives

Bringing key plans and execution ideas to the management team

Mentoring other engineers at all experience levels

Responding to issues and review requests from other teams at GitHub

Reviewing your teammates' Pull Requests and providing helpful feedback

Serve as an engineering representative for critical customer conversations to discover what they love and what their pain points are

Embedding in a squad periodically to enable others to tackle challenges and stretch assignments

As a part of Engineering technical leadership, advising on key initiatives, gaps, and technical blind spots

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 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 bachelor'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 master's degree 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 doctorate in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field,

OR equivalent experience.

5+ year(s) direct people management or leadership experience

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience setting technical direction across teams, growing managers and senior engineers.

Experience working closely with product management, design, and other engineering teams to drive cross-functional projects and deliver high-quality products

Experience in one or more scripting languages (e.g., Bash, Python, or a similar language)

Experience with cloud environments and/or Cloud Native Compute Foundation (CNCF) concepts

Experience working with both relational (e.g. mysql) and most importantly non-relational datastores (e.g. Cosmos) as well as operating Cosmos DB clusters at scale

Experience working with Azure resourcing such as Azure Storage (blob and table particularly), Azure Redis Cache, Azure Data Explorer Clusters.

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

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process.

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