staff Data Engineer tech_leadership Remote · Posted Dec 8, 2025

About this role

GitHub is hiring a staff-level Data Engineer as a remote position. The posting calls out experience with Python, JavaScript, Java, Rust.

Role
Data Engineer
Function
data engineering
Level
staff
Track
Tech leadership
Location
United States
Work mode
Remote
Department
Engineering
Posted
Dec 8, 2025
AI Summary
Staff-level Data Engineer designing and implementing scalable technical solutions across GitHub services. Provides technical leadership, mentorship, and owns system health through architecture design, API development, and CI/CD automation. Collaborates cross-functionally on strategic technical roadmap aligned with product goals.

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Job description

from GitHub careers
About GitHub

GitHub is the world’s leading platform for agentic software development — powered by Copilot to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 180 million developers, including more than 90% of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to collaborate, and more than 77,000 organisations have adopted GitHub Copilot.

Locations

In this role you can work from Remote, United States

Overview

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 great results. Great products reflect the teams that build them.

 


Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, test and ship high-quality technical solutions that scale across multiple GitHub services and become intimately familiar with the systems you build and take pride in writing maintainable code.

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