Software Engineer / Senior Software Engineer - Data Engineering GitHub

The GitHub organization, has got multiple positions opened for Software Engineers and Senior Software Engineers. 

As a Software Engineer at GitHub, you will enhance the collaboration experience at GitHub by working closely with a community of engineers and designers with a distributed, diverse and passionate team delivering the services that millions of developers depend on. In this role you will design, prototype, implement, ship and support highly performant and inspiring user experiences with your team.

We are looking for creative problem solvers and diverse thinkers, people who care about culture as well as customers and features. We believe that how we do things is as important as what we do. Big vision, a common purpose, passion for quality, curiosity, dedication, and investment in fun and collaboration are what lead to good results. Good products reflect the teams that build them.

• Design, develop, test and ship high-quality technical solutions that scale across multiple GitHub services.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement innovative solutions.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, pairing opportunities, and code reviews to encourage the growth of others.
• Own and advocate for the health and quality of the systems that the team builds, including participating in on-call and first responder rotations
• Write architecture briefs and proposals, carry out code experiments, and build prototypes to learn how we can achieve planetary scale with our systems.
• Design and implement APIs to facilitate seamless integration between software components.
• Utilize CI/CD tools to set up automated pipelines for continuous integration and delivery.
• Become intimately familiar with the systems you build and take pride in writing maintainable code.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND experience in Data Engineering and coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND engineering experience with 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 technical field AND engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust or Python
• OR equivalent experience.
• Experience working with both relational (e.g. mysql) and most importantly non-relational datastores (e.g. Cosmos).
• Experience working with Azure resource such as Azure Storage (blob and table particularly), Azure Redis Cache, Azure Data Explorer Clusters.
• Experience operating Cosmos DB clusters at scale.

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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