Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. GitHub is a leading platform for agentic software development powered by Copilot. The company is seeking a Principal Engineering Manager to lead Identity and Access Management for workforce and production systems, overseeing IAM strategy, platform evolution, engineering teams, reliability, security, and cross-functional delivery.
Responsibilities
- Lead the engineering strategy and technical roadmap for GitHub’s Identity & Access Management service area, spanning identity lifecycle, entitlements, privileged access, identity federation, and workforce identity providers
- Build and support high-performing engineering teams by coaching engineers, managing performance, growing technical leadership, and fostering a culture of ownership, inclusion, operational excellence, and learning
- Drive multi-quarter IAM platform evolution, including programs such as identity provider migrations, privileged access maturation, least-privilege access models, access automation, and identity platform consolidation
- Partner with Security, Infrastructure, IT, Compliance, Legal, and product engineering teams to define requirements, resolve dependencies, and ensure IAM systems meet GitHub’s security, regulatory, reliability, and usability needs
- Make secure access the easiest path by investing in paved paths, automation, APIs, and agent-consumable interfaces rather than relying on manual processes or policy memos
- Oversee reliability, supportability, and operational maturity for Tier-0 IAM services, including incident response, postmortems, observability, deployment safety, rollback strategies, and systemic reduction of operational toil
- Guide teams in designing scalable, secure, observable systems that support least privilege, just-in-time access, strong authentication, authorization, auditability, and identity governance at GitHub scale
- Create clarity across ambiguous security and infrastructure programs, balancing long-term correctness with pragmatic delivery, phased cutovers, parity validation, and safe migration strategies
- Raise the engineering bar through design reviews, architecture guidance, quality practices, automation, and mentorship across the IAM organization and adjacent engineering teams
Skills
- 11+ 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 10+ 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 Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field AND 9+ 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 Master's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, 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. + OR PhD 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, + OR equivalent experience
- 5+ years people management experience
- Experience leading engineering teams responsible for identity, access management, infrastructure security, internal developer platforms, or other Tier-0 production services
- Experience with identity directories and providers such as Okta, Entra ID/Azure AD, or similar workforce identity platforms
- Familiarity with authentication, authorization, federation, provisioning, and access-control patterns, including OAuth, OIDC, SAML, SCIM, and LDAP
- Experience leading large-scale identity platform migrations or consolidations, including parity validation, device trust, phased cutovers, rollback strategies, and dependent-team coordination
- Strong understanding of privileged access management, least privilege, just-in-time access, entitlement governance, access reviews, auditability, and operating IAM or security-critical services in Azure, AWS, or GCP
- Proven track record building and scaling engineering organizations in high-growth, high-ambiguity, or security-sensitive environments while partnering across Security, Infrastructure, IT, Legal, Compliance, and Engineering to deliver durable platform outcomes, including systems and APIs for programmatic or AI-agent consumption
Benefits
- At GitHub certain roles are eligible for benefits and additional rewards, including annual bonus and stock.
- 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.
- Remote-first work arrangement.
- Generous learning and growth opportunities.
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