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Principal Engineering Manager, Copilot agent platform

GitHub· Engineering
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Hybrid (United States)$160.2k - $425kFull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Lead a team responsible for creating innovative agentic experiences on the GitHub Cloud Agent platform, driving the technical roadmap, and delivering secure, scalable experiences for millions of developers and organizations within the Copilot Agents organization.

Responsibilities

  • Drive and execute 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.
  • Work with organizational leaders to shape GitHub’s AI product portfolio, identifying opportunities for innovation and leading initiatives that scale globally.
  • 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.
  • Own incident response and reliability practices, ensuring live services meet SLOs and postmortems drive systemic improvements. Oversee capacity planning to ensure performance, reliability, and compliance.
  • Champion experimentation and telemetry-driven development, enabling rapid iteration and data-informed decisions.
  • Identify novel bottlenecks in AI-powered development workflows to improve team and organizational impact.
  • Drive engineering excellence through automation, tooling, and standardization across deployment, testing, and operations.
  • Facilitate cross-team communications, identify dependencies, and resolve conflicts to ensure seamless integration and support across products, applications, and services.
  • Partner with stakeholders such as product managers and technical leads to determine requirements for services or complex scenarios, leveraging feedback channels to incorporate insights into future designs.

Qualifications

  • 11+ 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 equivalent combinations as detailed in the description).
  • 5+ years people management experience.
  • 3+ years of building/managing large scale Services or building Agentic products.

Skills

Required:Software engineering leadershipDistributed systems
Last updated Sep 24, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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