Privacy Engineering Manager
Posted Apr 19
GitHub’s role in the developer community means working to secure, maintain, and honor the privacy of tens of millions of developers. This requires partnering with multiple stakeholders and internal customers to build the infrastructure and tools that sustain this mission. As a member of the security org, you will be working alongside your peers in ensuring the privacy of individuals in the community and company; specifically, by envisioning and building out the controls and systems that will allow GitHub to develop as a social network.
Job Responsibilities
As the Privacy Engineering Manager you will be responsible for supporting and growing this diverse team of engineers with the mission to improve the Privacy landscape on the platform where the world's developers collaborate. This role includes opportunities to:
- Hire, mentor, and grow engineers at many experience levels.
- Manage the people and team to plan, balance, prioritize and execute on their day-to-day responsibilities, projects, and career development objectives.
- Foster collaborations across team, organization, and even company boundaries.
- Deliver user-friendly tools and efficient automated solutions that enable an understanding of where private information may reside within GitHub.
- Accrue and maintain an understanding of how privacy policy can best be implemented from an engineering standpoint while working to foster a collaborative, creative, and forward looking discipline within the team.
- Foster our vision of encouraging good privacy practices internally and externally.
Minimum qualifications
- 1+ years experience shipping well-tested, production software.
- 1+ years experience effectively managing small to medium sized security or engineering teams.
- The ability to take a pragmatic approach to decision making while applying practical security design principles and practices.
- Exceptional communication skills with a strong sense of empathy.
- Proven technical project management experience guiding strategic and tactical technical decision making and execution.
- Experience and interest in developing and maintaining processes and programmatic practices.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience in any of these technologies: Javascript, Typescript, React, GraphQL, Ruby, Rails, Java, Flink, Python, Go, C#.
- Experience managing in a remote environment.
- Experience working in Privacy.
Minimum salary of 104,400 to maximum 219,300 + bonus + equity + benefits.
Note: Disclosure as required by sb19-085 (8-5-20) of the minimum salary compensation for this role when being hired in Colorado.
Who We Are:
GitHub is the developer company. We make it easier for developers to be developers: to work together, to solve challenging problems, and to create the world’s most important technologies. We foster a collaborative community that can come togetheras individuals and in teamsto create the future of software and make a difference in the world.
Leadership Principles:
Customer Obsessed - Trust by Default - Ship to Learn - Own the Outcome - Growth Mindset - Global Product, Global Team - Anything is Possible - Practice Kindness
Why You Should Join:
At GitHub, we constantly strive to create an environment that allows our employees (Hubbers) to do the best work of their lives. We've designed one of the coolest workspaces in San Francisco (HQ), where many Hubbers work, snack, and create daily. The rest of our Hubbers work remotely around the globe.
We are also committed to keeping Hubbers healthy, motivated, focused and creative. We've designed our top-notch benefits program with these goals in mind. In a nutshell, we've built a place where we truly love working, we think you will too.
GitHub is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We embrace diversity and invite applications from people of all walks of life. We don't discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences. Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you; we're happy to accommodate!
Please note that benefits vary by country. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask your Talent Partner.
Misc Info For This Position:
Remote Mix: 100% Remote
Position Level: Manager
Job Type: Full-Time
Regional Restrictions: USA Only
