Overview

The Data Engineering team at GitHub is looking for engineers to help us in our mission to use our substantial data assets to enhance everything that GitHub does. As a member of this team, you will build out core event data infrastructure, work with data scientists and app engineers to build data pipelines that power public-facing features, and collaborate with analysts to provide business insight. If you have a passion for building reliable and scalable data systems, we’d love to talk to you.

Responsibilities:

  • Build high-volume event collection, processing and storage systems
  • Work with data scientists, ML experts, and application engineers to build product features that use GitHub’s data
  • Collaborate with teammates to design data pipelines and APIs, seeking and offering feedback along the way
  • Develop foundational data infrastructure, enabling other teams to build data-centric features
  • Work across many languages including Go, Java, Ruby, and Python
  • Share responsibility for the availability and performance of our team’s systems

Minimum Qualifications:

  • You have strong written and verbal communication skills
  • You’ve built software using several different programming languages
  • You’re passionate about software design and have good testing skills
  • You have operational experience with data pipelines and distributed systems
  • You’re able to empathize with a diverse set of engineers

Preferred Qualifications:

  • You have experience with Kafka and Hadoop
  • You have DevOps experience

Who We Are:

GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over fifteen million people use GitHub to build amazing things together. With the collaborative features of GitHub.com and GitHub Business, it has never been easier for individuals and teams to write faster, better code.

What We Value:

Collaboration: We believe the best work is done together.
Empathy: We believe in putting people first.
Quality: We believe in setting the standard for excellence.
Positive Impact: We believe in making the world a better place through our work.
Shipping: We believe in creating things for the people using them.

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 over half of our Hubbers work, snack, and create daily. The other half of our Hubbers work remotely in 18 countries across 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 Recruiter!