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Staff Engineering Manager GitHub CoPilot API

at GitHub

📍 Remote, US Remote 💰 $140K – $372K USD / year Posted April 10, 2026
Salary $140K – $372K USD / year
Type Not Specified
Experience executive
Exp. Years 9+ years
Education Not specified
Category System Administration

GitHub is hiring a Staff Engineering Manager to lead development of the GitHub Copilot AI inference platform. The role focuses on scaling inference infrastructure, improving experiment-to-production, and ensuring reliable, secure, observable operation at production scale.

  • Drive and support technical roadmap aligned to product goals
  • Facilitate cross-team communications and resolve dependencies/conflicts
  • Guide design of scalable, secure, observable systems
  • Champion experimentation and telemetry-driven development
  • Own incident response and reliability practices to meet SLOs and drive postmortem improvements

Lead engineering for an AI inference platform supporting generative AI workloads at scale. Own orchestration frameworks, high-throughput service infrastructure, telemetry-driven development, and reliability practices including incident response, SLOs, and postmortems.

The ideal candidate is a Staff Engineering Manager with 9+ years of software engineering experience, who has led production teams building AI inference and generative AI serving systems. They bring strong technical leadership in distributed systems, orchestration frameworks, and telemetry-driven iteration, while owning reliability via incident response, SLOs, and postmortems.

9+ years' experience in Software EngineeringComputer Scienceor related technical disciplinemaintaining and delivering production software coding in languages
distributed systemsgenerative AI serving architecturesAI inference platformhigh-throughput service infrastructureexperiment-to-production pipelineorchestration frameworksgenerative AI workloads at scalescalable systemssecure systemsobservable systemstelemetry-driven developmentautomationtoolingstandardizationdeploymenttestingoperationsincident responsereliability practicesSLOspostmortemsresource allocationresource deployment
distributed systemsgenerative AI serving architecturesAI inference platformhigh-throughput service infrastructureexperiment-to-production pipelineorchestration frameworksgenerative AI workloads at scalesecure resource deploymentscalable systemssecure systemsobservable systemstelemetry-driven developmentautomationtoolingstandardizationdeploymenttestingoperationsincident responsereliability practicesSLOspostmortemsincident response and reliability practicesresource allocationresource deploymenthigh-trust team building
strategic visiontechnical leadershipmentoringcross-team communicationsresolve conflictsemployee growth and developmentmanage performancedata-informed decisionsengineering excellencefoster a culture of technical excellencefoster a culture of experimentationdeveloper empathytransparencyinclusive collaborationcommunication
Industry SaaS
Job Function Manage engineering leadership to build and operate GitHub Copilot AI inference infrastructure
Role Subtype VP of Engineering
Tech Domains AI & Machine Learning, Cloud & Infrastructure
Staff Engineering ManagerEngineering Managerdistributed systemsgenerative AI serving architecturesAI inference platformhigh-throughput service infrastructureexperiment-to-production pipelineorchestration frameworksgenerative AI workloadstelemetry-driven developmentautomationtoolingstandardizationincident responsereliability practicesSLOspostmortemsscalable systemssecure systemsobservable systemsproduction softwaresecure resource deploymentresource allocationresource deployment

Must have 9+ years' experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline, Must have proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding, Must demonstrate leadership building and operating scalable, secure, observable systems

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