{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"03692e589bcdb13bda9fd173","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/03692e589bcdb13bda9fd173","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/03692e589bcdb13bda9fd173","title":"Staff Engineering Manager, Elasticsearch","description":"Staff Engineering Manager\r\nGitHub is seeking a Staff Engineering Manager to join the search engineering team. The Elasticsearch team is responsible for the infrastructure and code that powers the search of Issues, Pull Requests, Projects, Discussions, and more the backbone of how millions of developers find information across GitHub every day.\r\nA high number of candidates may make applications for this position, so make sure to send your CV and application through as soon as possible.\r\nOur team manages large-scale Elasticsearch clusters spanning hundreds of terabytes of data, serving hundreds of thousands of reads and writes per second, and supporting indexes with billions or trillions of records. We focus on cluster management and scaling, optimizing index creation, repair, and reindexing, ensuring recoverability and mapping integrity, and building API-driven interfaces between relational data and search indexes.\r\nIn this role you will be a leader and multiplier within our distributed team who will not only manage people, but also help design, prototype, implement and shape search and non-relational platform solutions at GitHub. You are a confident people manager who is willing to work alongside the team to solve tough problems, leading by example in the use of modern AI software development tools to learn and iterate quickly.\r\nResponsibilitiesLead a talented, distributed team of infrastructure and search engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, reliability, and engineering excellence across GitHub's Elasticsearch platform.\r\nEnsure the team builds software that is architecturally consistent and of high quality, establishing patterns and best practices for the organization.\r\nCoordinate with engineering and product leads to define, prioritize, and task projects that help us meet business objectives.\r\nProvide technical leadership, mentorship, pairing opportunities, and code reviews to encourage the growth of others.\r\nEnsure site availability and performance: act as a leader in incident response, working across teams to diagnose and resolve production issues. Maintain monitoring, disaster recovery plans, and compliance postures.\r\nWork closely with engineering leadership to guide technical investment and implement technical roadmaps and priorities for the Elasticsearch platform.\r\nA Week In The Life Of A Staff Engineering Manager Might Consist Of:Collaborating with other Engineering Managers to define the future of GitHub engineering and working together to implement that vision.\r\nDigging in to the most important issues the department is tackling by asking questions, creating plans, recognizing pitfalls, and raising concerns.\r\nDiscussing and collaboratively solving engineering and product problems with engineering collaborators in Slack or Zoom/Teams.\r\nSupporting company-wide initiatives.\r\nBringing key plans and execution ideas to the management team.\r\nMentoring other engineers at all experience levels.\r\nResponding to issues and review requests from other teams at GitHub.\r\nReviewing your teammates' Pull Requests and providing helpful feedback.\r\nServe as an engineering representative for critical customer conversations to discover what they love and what their pain points are.\r\nEmbedding in a squad periodically to enable others to tackle challenges and stretch assignments.\r\nAs a part of Engineering technical leadership, advising on key initiatives, gaps, and technical blind spots.\r\nQualificationsRequired Qualifications\r\n9+ 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 Associate's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, 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 languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python,\r\nOR 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 languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python,\r\nOR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, 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 languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python,\r\nOR Doctorate in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, 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 languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python,\r\nOR equivalent experience.3+ years people management experience.\r\n4+ years experience with troubleshooting across network, application, caching, queuing, load-balancing, storage and distributed services layers.\r\n4+ years experience in one or more of the following domains: kernels, networking, compilers, software development tools, databases (relational and non-relational), HTTP, virtual machines, containers, security.\r\nPreferred Qualifications\r\nExperience with Lucene/Apache-based search technologies (Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Solr), including deep understanding of search relevance, scoring, and query optimization.\r\nExperience with non relational database and document store technologies such as MongoDB, CosmosDB.\r\nPrior experience being on an oncall rotation and working on live-site incidents for large scale distributed systems. Understanding of production system monitoring and observability.\r\nExperience with cloud platforms like Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services.\r\nAbility to think critically about both system design and software engineering concepts and blend those perspectives pragmatically based on project needs.\r\nCompensation RangeThe base salary range for this job is USD $140,400.00 - USD $372,300.00 /Yr. These pay ranges are intended to cover roles based across the United States. An individual's base pay depends on various factors including geographical location and review of experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant. At GitHub certain roles are eligible for benefits and additional rewards, including annual bonus and stock. These rewards are allocated based on individual impact in role. In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee's role.\r\nGitHub values\r\nCustomer-obsessed\r\nShip to learn\r\nGrowth mindset\r\nOwn the outcome\r\nBetter together\r\nDiverse and inclusive\r\nManager fundamentals\r\nModel\r\nCoach\r\nCare\r\nLeadership principles\r\nCreate clarity\r\nGenerate energy\r\nDeliver success\r\nWho We Are\r\nGitHub is the world's leading AI-powered developer platform with 150 million developers and counting. We're also home to the biggest open-source community on earth (and 99% of the world's software has open-source code in its DNA). Many of the apps and programs you use every day are built on GitHub. Our teams are dreamers, doers, and pioneers, leading the way in AI, driving humanitarian efforts around the globe, and even sending open source to Mars (and beyond!). At GitHub, our goal is to create the space you need to do your best work. 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Understanding of production system monitoring and observability.\r\nExperience with cloud platforms like Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services.\r\nAbility to think critically about both system design and software engineering concepts and blend those perspectives pragmatically based on project needs.\r\nCompensation RangeThe base salary range for this job is USD $140,400.00 - USD $372,300.00 /Yr. These pay ranges are intended to cover roles based across the United States. An individual's base pay depends on various factors including geographical location and review of experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant. At GitHub certain roles are eligible for benefits and additional rewards, including annual bonus and stock. These rewards are allocated based on individual impact in role. In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee's role.\r\nGitHub values\r\nCustomer-obsessed\r\nShip to learn\r\nGrowth mindset\r\nOwn the outcome\r\nBetter together\r\nDiverse and inclusive\r\nManager fundamentals\r\nModel\r\nCoach\r\nCare\r\nLeadership principles\r\nCreate clarity\r\nGenerate energy\r\nDeliver success\r\nWho We Are\r\nGitHub is the world's leading AI-powered developer platform with 150 million developers and counting. We're also home to the biggest open-source community on earth (and 99% of the world's software has open-source code in its DNA). Many of the apps and programs you use every day are built on GitHub. Our teams are dreamers, doers, and pioneers, leading the way in AI, driving humanitarian efforts around the globe, and even sending open source to Mars (and beyond!). At GitHub, our goal is to create the space you need to do your best work. 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