Principal Engineering Manager, Identity & Access Management

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.

Qualifications

• 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.