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Staff Security Data Engineer

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23 days ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
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Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain secure, reliable, scalable data infrastructure in Azure and AWS.
  • Manage Terraform resources, Kusto clusters and tables, and Airflow-orchestrated ETL pipelines.
  • Lead cross-organizational security telemetry onboarding initiatives and close visibility gaps.
  • Establish data governance practices and telemetry policies for sensitive security data.
  • Provide technical leadership for data platforms supporting security monitoring, threat detection, threat hunting, investigations, and incident response.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in security analysis, security research, cybersecurity, security engineering, or a relevant area; alternatively, an associate degree with 9+ years, bachelor’s degree with 8+ years, master’s degree with 6+ years, doctorate with 4+ years, or equivalent experience.
  • 5+ years of hands-on experience building and maintaining cloud-scale Azure infrastructure.
  • 3+ years of production experience with Kusto and KQL, Apache Airflow, Terraform, and Python.
  • 2+ years of experience leading complex cross-organizational initiatives, aligning stakeholders, and translating operational requirements into durable technical solutions.
  • Preferred: experience with Security Operations, threat detection, incident response, threat intelligence, red teaming, AI workflows, Azure Event Hubs or comparable telemetry ingestion, and data-platform observability, reliability, data quality, and cost management.

Benefits

  • Remote position available in the United States and part of a remote-first organization.
  • Competitive pay, generous learning and growth opportunities, and excellent benefits.
  • GitHub supports flexible work arrangements and provides workplace accommodations when needed.

Tech Stack

Categories

Data EngineeringSecurity
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About GitHub

5,001-10,000 employees

GitHub builds a cloud platform for software development that hosts code repositories, collaboration, and automation, including GitHub Actions, Packages, and Copilot. It sells paid plans and enterprise subscriptions for organizations and developers, plus add-ons and a marketplace. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in San Francisco, it is owned by Microsoft and is widely used by open-source communities and enterprises worldwide.

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