Senior Engineering Manager, CodeQL

34% 1-Year Employee Growth Rate | 89% 2-Year Employee Growth Rate | LinkedIn | $350M Venture Funding

What Is Employee Growth Rate & Why Is It Important?

Overview

GitHub is the home for software development, where developers collaborate to build some of the world’s most important software. The security of that software is a collective problem, a responsibility that involves producers and consumers of code, open source maintainers, security researchers, and security teams. At GitHub, we want to give the community the tools it needs to secure the software we all depend on.

CodeQL is one such tool: our semantic code analysis engine that lets you query code as though it were data. CodeQL combines the latest research in compiler optimization with insights in database implementation. It understands the complex data structures inherent in code, and makes analysis available to researchers using a declarative, object-oriented query language. You can write a query to find all variants of a vulnerability, eradicating it forever. Then share your query to help others do the same.

You’ll lead a team responsible for CodeQL analysis of one or more programming languages, providing technical input, setting direction, and managing priorities, all while working closely with our product management team and your peers. You’ll coach your team and provide regular feedback, helping each individual to learn and grow. We expect you to have excellent written communication skills and the ability to create good working relationships with colleagues across the globe. Ideally, you’ll be able to demonstrate a bias to action, a focus on regular iterative improvements, and highly developed organizational and process skills.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage a team of code analysis and programming language experts working to redefine what’s possible through static analysis and variant analysis.
• Set team direction, shape priorities, influence product roadmaps, and focus on the team’s velocity and impact, always creating a connection to company priorities.
• Create alignment and shared culture with other teams in the Code Scanning space.
• Develop and improve your team’s processes, and ensure it is staffed appropriately.
• Ensure individuals learn, grow, and advance in their careers.
• Cultivate an environment where team members are empowered to do great work, and demonstrate a strong sense of ownership and belonging.
• Work closely with product and field engineering to ensure our customers’ needs are met.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 2 or more years of experience leading software engineering teams.
• Passion for fostering good engineering practices, tools, and processes.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Enthusiasm for providing feedback, teaching/mentoring others, and learning new skills.
• Ability to create a shared understanding of decision making, direction, priorities, and progress between the team, the org, and the broader company.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Good understanding of programming language design and implementation, modern compilers, and parsers.
• Exposure to or advocacy of static or dynamic analysis, or security best practices.
• Engagement with or advocacy for open source.
• Experience managing distributed teams and operating effectively across multiple time zones.
• Track record of building developer tools or security solutions.

We work as a distributed group within a distributed company. The majority of our team members live across Europe, the US, and Canada, and while we do have some offices, all our meetings are location-agnostic and happen online. We operate with a high degree of autonomy and trust, and we have a significant level of influence on the product and technical direction of CodeQL, as well as the broader code intelligence products at GitHub. We value learning, introspection and reflection, and we’re always looking for ways to improve as a team and as individuals, so candor and a culture that values safety to speak up are highly important to us.

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