Staff Engineering Manager, Licensing

Staff Engineering Manager, Licensing

United States

Engineering

Experienced Professional

Director

Yes

5700

Full Time

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Job Description

About GitHub

GitHub is the world’s leading platform for agentic software development — powered by Copilot to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 180 million developers, including more than 90% of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to collaborate, and more than 77,000 organisations have adopted GitHub Copilot.

Locations

In this role you can work from Remote, United States

Overview

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 spans licensing for our core platform and security products as well as enablement for Copilot. It's a role where your work has direct, meaningful impact on GitHub's revenue and customer trust, at a scale spanning millions of developers and organizations.

As a Staff Engineering Manager, you will lead the team in developing cost-effective, secure technical solutions and ensure system architecture aligns with business goals. You'll guide this expanded team through continued growth, driving strategic initiatives and shaping how GitHub's licensing and enablement offerings evolve.

You will create the conditions for a high-performing team to do its best work: setting clear priorities, building strong partnerships, coaching engineers toward their next level of growth, and ensuring the team delivers outcomes that are technically sound, scalable, and aligned with GitHub's business needs.

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

Required 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 associate's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 8+ years' experience in software engineering, computer science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in the languages above,

OR bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field AND 7+ years' experience in software engineering, computer science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in the languages above,

OR master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 5+ years' experience in software engineering, computer science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in the languages above,

OR doctorate in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years' experience in software engineering, computer science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in the languages above,

OR equivalent experience.

3+ years people management experience

Preferred Qualifications

Strong system design and architecture skills, with experience in resilient system design, technology selection, and cloud-native, event-driven distributed systems (e.g., Azure or similar cloud platforms, event streaming/pub-sub, async job processing); direct experience with Azure, Cosmos DB, or Go is a plus but not required.

Experience leading large, diverse engineering teams in a fast-paced environment, with a track record of successfully delivering complex projects on time and within budget.

Experience developing customer-facing product experiences, with a strong understanding of UX principles and the ability to incorporate customer feedback into full-stack product development.

Experience with billing, metering, licensing, or other systems with direct financial/compliance impact.

Compensation Range

The base salary range for this job is USD $140,400.00 - USD $372,300.00 /Yr.

• 9+ years software engineering experience with production coding in languages like C, Java, Python, or equivalent education and experience.
• 3+ years people management experience.
• Proven ability to deliver secure, scalable technical solutions aligned with business goals.