About Git Hub: As the global home for all developers, Git Hub is the complete AI-powered developer platform to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 100 million people, including developers from 90 of the Fortune 100 companies, use Git Hub to build amazing things together across 330+ million repositories. With all the collaborative features of Git Hub, it has never been easier for individuals and teams to write faster, better code.
Locations: In this role you can work from Remote, United Kingdom
Overview:As a Data Engineer on the Data Science team you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining efficient and reliable data pipelines that power digital experiences for our customers across different surfaces. You will work closely with stakeholders across the company (Marketing, Revenue, Product) to gather business requirements, instrument telemetry, build data models, and ensure data quality and accessibility. Your expertise in Python, SQL, KQL and Airflow will be crucial to evolve our data infrastructure and integrate different systems.


We are the Data Science team at Git Hub, helping all decision makers across the company, whether it’s collaborating with Product to understand the performance of a newly launched offering, helping Marketing with data-driven lifecycle campaigns, or assisting Revenue in finding growth opportunities. We build and ship data products, and we make an impact. If you’re the kind of person who gets a thrill from seeing your work go live and making a difference, you’ll fit right in. We believe in learning and growing together. When one of us wins, we all win. So, expect a lot of sharing, teaching, and, of course, plenty of high-fives (sparkles).

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines using Python, SQL, KQL and Airflow
  
• Work with business stakeholders and other team members (data analysts and data scientists) to understand business requirements and translate them into technical specifications.
  
• Develop and implement data models that support automation, analytics and reporting needs.
  
• Ensure data accuracy, consistency, and reliability by implementing robust data validation and quality checks.
  
• Build and implement monitoring and observability metrics to detect anomalies in data pipelines.
  
• Own and advocate for the health and quality of the data pipelines that the team builds, including participating in on-call and first responder rotations.
  

Qualifications:

Required Qualifications:

• A couple years of experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, Java Script, 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 equivalent experience
    
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field
    
  • OR equivalent experience
    
• Some experience in a data engineering or analytics engineering role

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ability to gather business requirements and translate them into long lasting data models
  
• Proficiency in Python, SQL and Airflow
  
• Experience using Azure technologies (Kusto/KQL) is a bonus
  
• Strong written and verbal communication skill
  
• Passionate about healthy team culture and collaboration
  
• Comfortable working transparently in an agile environment and soliciting feedback from peers
  
• Experience with Git, Git Hub and remote working is a plus
  

Git Hub Leadership Principles: Git Hub values

• Customer-obsessed
• Ship to learn
• Growth mindset
• Own the outcome
• Better together
• Diverse and inclusive

Manager fundamentals

• Model
• Coach
• Care

Leadership principles

• Create clarity
• Generate energy
• Deliver success

Who We Are: Git Hub is the world’s leading AI-powered developer platform with 100 million developers and counting. We’re also home to the biggest open-source community on earth (and 99% of the world’s software has open-source code in its DNA). Many of the apps and programs you use every day are built on Git Hub.
Our teams are dreamers, doers, and pioneers, leading the way in AI, driving humanitarian efforts around the globe, and even sending open source to Mars (and beyond!). At Git Hub, our goal is to create the space you need to do your best work. We’re remote-first and offer competitive pay, generous learning and growth opportunities, and excellent benefits to support you, wherever you are—because we know that people flourish when they can work on their own terms.
Join us, and let’s change the world, together.
EEO Statement: Git Hub 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!