Principal Software Engineering Manager - GitHub (CoreAI)
Core
Drive the engineering roadmap, build high-performing teams, and guide architectural decisions for GitHub's CoreAI platform.
Role type
Principal Software Engineering Manager (AI Infrastructure)
Builds
Large-scale distributed systems, multi-tenant compute platforms, and AI/agentic workload environments.
Domain
Cloud infrastructure, AI/ML platforms, and distributed systems.
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Distributed systems architecture, cloud platform operations, security and workload isolation, AI/agentic workload design, team leadership, technical strategy, automation and tooling, incident response, capacity planning.
Preferred skills
Experience with containers, virtual machines, microVMs, and workload orchestration.
Technologies
C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, containers, virtual machines, microVMs.
Responsibilities
Drive engineering roadmap alignment with product goals, facilitate cross-team collaboration, build and develop engineering teams, guide architectural and technical decisions, champion experimentation and telemetry-driven development, drive engineering excellence through automation and standardization, own operational excellence and reliability practices.
Seniority
Principal, hands-on IC with management responsibilities