Principal Software Engineering Manager - GitHub (CoreAI)

Drive the engineering roadmap in alignment with product goals, prioritizing investments and adopting new technologies and approaches where they provide meaningful value. Facilitate cross-team collaboration, identify dependencies, and resolve technical and organizational challenges that span teams and services. Build and develop a high-performing engineering team through hiring, coaching, performance management, and career development. Guide the team in making strong architectural and technical decisions, balancing scalability, security, reliability, maintainability, and delivery velocity. Champion experimentation and telemetry-driven development, enabling rapid iteration and data-informed decisions. Drive engineering excellence through automation, tooling, testing, and standardization across development, deployment, and operations. Own operational excellence and reliability practices, including SLOs, incident response, capacity planning, and ensuring post-incident learnings drive systemic improvements. Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Experience designing, building, or operating large-scale distributed systems and cloud-based platforms, with a strong understanding of reliability, scalability, and operational excellence. Experience with multi-tenant compute platforms, containers, virtual machines, microVMs, workload orchestration, or similar infrastructure technologies. Experience with security and workload isolation, including safely executing untrusted code, network isolation, secrets management, and defense-in-depth. Experience building platforms that support AI and agentic workloads, including dynamic execution environments, tool use, long-running workloads, and rapidly evolving infrastructure requirements. Experience leading complex, cross-functional engineering initiatives and partnering closely with product, security, and other engineering teams to define technical strategy and deliver high-quality platform capabilities.