Senior Engineering Manager

About Git Hub

Git Hub is the world’s leading platform for agentic software development — powered by Copilot to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 180 million developers, including more than 90% of the Fortune 100 companies, use Git Hub to collaborate, and more than 77,000 organisations have adopted Git Hub Copilot.

In this role you can work from Remote, United Kingdom

Git Hub is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead and grow distributed engineering teams through strong partnership, clear direction, and a commitment to engineering excellence. In this role, you’ll work closely with cross‑functional stakeholders to shape requirements, guide technical decision‑making, and ensure teams deliver high‑quality, reliable solutions that meet both product and business needs.

You’ll create the conditions for teams to succeed by establishing effective development and quality practices, supporting thoughtful design and dependency management, and championing proactive approaches to reliability, testing, and operational health. As a senior people leader, you’ll coach and develop engineers and managers, model strong collaboration, and foster a culture of learning, ownership, and continuous improvement.

Engineers at Git Hub are passionate about building products developers love. You’ll help amplify that passion—supporting teams as they learn, grow, and deliver work they’re proud of, while maintaining the high standards our users expect.

• Drive and support technical roadmap that aligns with product goals, ensuring that engineering efforts are strategically prioritized and incorporating the adoption of new technologies and methodologies where applicable.
• Facilitate cross-team communications, identify dependencies, and resolve conflicts to ensure seamless integration and support across products, applications, and services.
• Drive employee growth and development, manage performance, and ensure the engineering team's skills remain current by staying abreast of industry developments and best practices.
• Guide teams in designing scalable, secure, and observable systems that meet business and technical requirements.
• Champion experimentation and telemetry-driven development, enabling rapid iteration and data‑informed decisions.
• Drive engineering excellence through automation, tooling, and standardization across deployment, testing, and operations.
• Own incident response and reliability practices, ensuring we meet SLOs and postmortems drive systemic improvements.

• 6+ 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 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 Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ 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 2+ 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…