Software Engineering Manager, Platform Health

Job Description

GitHub Security is hiring an Engineering Manager to help lead and evolve the Platform Health Team. This team helps protect the GitHub Platform from abuse at scale. Practically this means detecting, remediating, and preventing a number of types of abuse including but not limited to:

• Spam in user generated content including Issues, Pull Requests, Gists, repository git contents, and more.
• Gaming of social features including repository Stars and user Follows.
• Use of GitHub Actions and Codespaces that violates our terms of service.

Our engineers work closely with our analysts, investigators, and data scientists to collect and analyze hundreds of signals across billions of events in both automated and manual workflows. One of our goals as engineers is to act as a force multiplier for our stakeholders by decreasing their iteration times and increasing the number of signals available to them.

We build datasets to answer questions more quickly. We design and implement infrastructure to detect abuse in new products. We build web apps to support analysis and investigative workflows. We build APIs that serve the entire Security organization. We consult with product teams to help them build abuse resilient features.

GitHub’s Security team is highly distributed and to be successful you must thrive in an environment of distributed work and asynchronous communication. Strong written communication skills are essential, as is the ability to develop strong working relationships with coworkers in locations around the globe. This role is not about dictating a team member's work directly, but rather guiding and serving to ensure the productivity and success of the members and team. A primary goal of this job is to enable each team member to do the best work of their lives securing GitHub.

Job Responsibilities

As the Platform Health Engineering Manager you will be responsible for supporting and growing this diverse team of engineers with the unique mission to protect the platform where the world's developers collaborate. This role includes opportunities to:

• Hire, mentor, and grow engineers at many experience levels.
• Manage the people and team to plan, balance, prioritize and execute on their day-to-day responsibilities, projects, and career development objectives.
• Foster collaborations across team, organization, and even company boundaries.
• Design, implement, and manage an enterprise wide platform and tools for combating abuse at scale.
• Facilitate yearly performance review and peer feedback processes as well as promotions.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Several years experience effectively managing small to medium sized security or engineering teams.
• Experience effectively managing and working with distributed and remote teams.
• The ability to take a pragmatic approach to decision making while applying practical design principles and practices.
• Exceptional communication skills backed with a strong empathetic capability.
• Proven technical project management experience guiding strategic and tactical technical decision making and execution.
• Experience and interest in developing and maintaining processes and programmatic practices.

Desired Skills and Experience:

• Experience in any of these technologies: Javascript, Typescript, React, GraphQL, Ruby, Rails, Java, Flink, Python, Go, C#.
  Familiarity with Machine Learning.
• Experience with data visualization.
• Can develop and maintain systems through reusable code and tooling.

Minimum salary of $104,400 to maximum $221,500 + bonus + equity + benefits.

Note: Disclosure as required by sb19-085 (8-5-20) of the minimum salary compensation for this role when being hired in Colorado.

Who We Are:

GitHub is the developer company. We make it easier for developers to be developers: to work together, to solve challenging problems, and to create the world’s most important technologies. We foster a collaborative community that can come together—as individuals and in teams—to create the future of software and make a difference in the world.

Leadership Principles:

Customer Obsessed - Trust by Default - Ship to Learn - Own the Outcome - Growth Mindset - Global Product, Global Team - Anything is Possible - Practice Kindness

Why You Should Join:

At GitHub, we constantly strive to create an environment that allows our employees (Hubbers) to do the best work of their lives. We've designed one of the coolest workspaces in San Francisco (HQ), where many Hubbers work, snack, and create daily. The rest of our Hubbers work remotely around the globe. Check out an updated list of where we can hire here: https://github.com/about/careers/remote

We are also committed to keeping Hubbers healthy, motivated, focused and creative. We've designed our top-notch benefits program with these goals in mind. In a nutshell, we've built a place where we truly love working, we think you will too.

GitHub is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We embrace diversity and invite applications from people of all walks of life. We don't discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences. Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you; we're happy to accommodate!

Please note that benefits vary by country. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask your Talent Partner.

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