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Staff Security Data Engineer

GitHub· Security
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Hybrid (Remote United States)Full-timePosted 5d ago

About the role

GitHub is seeking an experienced data engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable, secure data infrastructure in Azure (and AWS) to support security monitoring, threat detection, hunting, investigations, and incident response. The role focuses on data pipelines, compute clusters, data models, governance, and telemetry policy across the security organization.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain secure, reliable, and scalable data infrastructure in Azure, and AWS, including Terraform-managed resources, Kusto clusters and tables, and Airflow-orchestrated ETL pipelines
  • Lead cross-organizational initiatives to onboard new security telemetry, and identify and close visibility gaps
  • Establish and advance data governance practices for security telemetry, including highly sensitive data sources
  • Define and drive adoption of security telemetry policies and standards, partnering with Security teams and service owners to identify and remediate gaps
  • Provide technical leadership to projects focused on the data platforms and infrastructure that supporting security monitoring, threat detection, hunting, investigations, and incident response

Qualifications

  • 10+ years experience in security analysis, security research, cyber security, security engineering, or relevant area (or equivalent experience)
  • 5+ years of hands-on experience building and maintaining cloud scale Azure infrastructure
  • 3+ years of deep experience with Kusto and KQL, Apache Airflow, Terraform, and Python in production environments
  • 2+ years experience leading complex initiatives across organizational boundaries, aligning stakeholders, and translating operational requirements into durable technical solutions.

Skills

Required:Security data engineeringAzureKusto / KQLApache AirflowTerraformPythonGovernanceCross-functional leadership
Nice to have:AWS
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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