Software Engineer

at  GITHUB INC

About GitHub: As the global home for all developers, GitHub 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 GitHub to build amazing things together across 330+ million repositories. With all the collaborative features of GitHub, it has never been easier for individuals and teams to write faster, better code.
Locations: In this role you can work from Remote, Denmark
Overview:
GitHub’s many features give it a broad attack surface that make it a popular target for malicious hackers, spammers, and fraudsters. Hackers know that we protect the key intellectual property of a massive number of companies and people. Spammers love the many vectors for delivering rich content through the platform: from creating spam on Gists, issue comments, and user profiles to even opening Pull Requests to add “ads” to repositories. Fraudsters seek to profit by abusing GitHub and third-party integrators for monetary gain. This large and varied attack surface gives GitHub a constantly evolving and unique set of problems to solve.
About Us:
The mission of the Platform Health team is to protect the health, safety, and integrity of the GitHub platform from abuse at scale - establishing and preserving trust for the users, communities, integrators, and businesses that rely on GitHub. As a member of GitHub’s Platform Health team you will help develop tools and countermeasures to detect and prevent abuse at scale on GitHub, build integrations between internal and external services, and advise product teams on best practices for making their products more resilient to abuse.
The Platform Health team is self-driven, autonomous, and highly collaborative. This is a talented team that values learning, work-life balance, and tackling interesting challenges. These challenges are in no short supply given our adversarial and evolving problem space. The team’s strength lies in the culture of high trust and empathy in which we operate; and genuine joy in the work we do and people we work with.

What We Value:

• Collaboration: We believe the best work is done together.
• Empathy: We believe in putting people first.
• Quality: We believe in setting the standard for excellence.
• Positive Impact: We believe in making the world a better place through our work.
• Shipping: We believe in creating things for the people using them.

Responsibilities:

• Writing and reviewing front and back-end code.
• Documenting the systems, you help build.
• Encouraging the technical growth of your peers.
• Working with your team to define and prioritize projects.
• Reviewing new products and providing consultation to product teams.

Qualifications:

Required Qualifications:

• Several years of experience writing code professionally
• Experience in any of these technologies: JavaScript, Typescript, React, GraphQL, Ruby, Rails, Java, Flink, Python, Go, or C#

Preferred Experience:

• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Experience in analytical fields
• Experience in stream processing and data pipelines
• Experience fighting spam, malware, fraud, or attack activity at scale

GitHub Leadership Principles:

• Writing and reviewing front and back-end code.
• Documenting the systems, you help build.
• Encouraging the technical growth of your peers.
• Working with your team to define and prioritize projects.
• Reviewing new products and providing consultation to product teams