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Principal Software Engineering Manager - GitHub (CoreAI)

Microsoft· Software Engineering
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Mountain View, CAfull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Principal Software Engineering Manager to lead the Sandbox team, shaping cloud-based development environments and agentic workloads for GitHub/CoreAI, ensuring secure, scalable, and reliable platform evolution.

Responsibilities

  • 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.

Qualifications

  • 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.

Skills

Required:Engineering leadershipArchitectural decision making
Last updated Sep 24, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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