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Staff Engineering Manager, Licensing

GitHub· Engineering
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Hybrid (Remote, United States)$140.4k - $372.3kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

GitHub's Licensing team owns the platform experience behind license management and product enablement, determining what products and features customers have access to, managing subscriptions and plan changes, and ensuring usage is tracked and billed accurately. This role leads the team in developing cost-effective, secure technical solutions and guiding strategy for licensing and enablement offerings across the platform, including Copilot.

Responsibilities

  • Guide teams in creating technical solutions for licensing and subscription access, ensuring designs are cost-effective and meet security and compliance requirements.
  • Develop and enforce code review guidelines that adhere to GitHub's quality standards, ensuring reliability, accuracy, and scalability of usage tracking and downstream billing.
  • Drive project plans, release plans, and work items in coordination with Product and cross-org stakeholders to ensure resources are allocated effectively.
  • Guide efforts to optimize deployments across products and components, ensuring solutions are deployed safely and adhere to GitHub's deployment standards.
  • Act as an escalation point for live service operations on systems with direct revenue and compliance impact, providing technical guidance to resolve complex incidents.
  • Oversee the development and reuse of software developer tools to support code creation, debugging, and maintenance.
  • Lead and manage team performance, driving employee development and ensuring the team's skills remain current with industry developments.
  • Serve as a technical and organizational leader beyond your immediate team, influencing architecture and practices across the broader organization.
  • Lead initiatives to enhance quality assurance processes, ensuring products meet the highest standards of quality and reliability before release.
  • Hire, coach, and retain top engineering talent, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous learning.

Qualifications

  • 9+ years' experience in software engineering, computer science, or a 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 equivalent experience with alternative education paths).
  • 3+ years people management experience

Skills

Required:Software engineeringPeople management

Benefits

  • Note: Benefits are mentioned generally in compensation section; not explicitly enumerated in the description.
Last updated Aug 20, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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