The Data Pipelines team at GitHub is looking for engineers to help us in our mission to build scalable and reliable event-driven systems that power GitHub's vast data needs. As a member of this team, you will build out core event logging infrastructure, work with application engineers to develop queueing systems, and work on the infrastructure to store, process and distribute billions of messages per day. If you have a passion for building reliable data infrastructure at scale, we'd love to talk to you.

Responsibilities

• Build high-volume event collection, processing and storage systems
• Work with 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, Java and the JVM
• You have DevOps experience

Ability to meet GitHub, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:  Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft, GitHub’s parent company, Cloud Screen upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Minimum salary of $104,400 to maximum $221,500 + 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.