Senior Data Engineer
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Senior Data Engineer building scalable voter-data and experimentation infrastructure at Movement Labs, a progressive political technology incubator. Leading pipelines, AI tooling, and election-readiness systems.
Responsibilities:
- Design and implement scalable data architecture for targeting and engagement
- Serve as technical partner to program teams
- Extend foundational datasets to facilitate new outreach strategies
- Load-test systems to prepare for elections
- Maintain key datasets for polling images and precinct cross-matching
- Develop standardized experimental frameworks for testing campaign effectiveness
- Build AI tooling, including QC agents, evaluations, and context systems for self-documenting repositories
- Shape pipelines and integrations feeding the RCT platform and foundational voter datasets
- Extend and optimize the data platform and orchestration layer for cost, runtime, and reliability
- Lead projects spanning multiple systems and teams from scoping through milestones
- Test and validate work, review teammates' code, and mentor through code review
- Document and communicate systems to teammates, stakeholders, and non-engineers
- Rotate through on-call and rapid response, including evenings and weekends during high-stakes election cycles
Requirements:
- Passionate about progressive politics and leveraging data, technology, organizing and research to build political power
- 3-6+ years of experience in designing, building, and operating production data pipelines and integrations
- Strong proficiency in SQL and Python
- Experience building production software across a modern data stack — cloud data warehouses (BigQuery or similar), a transformation framework like dbt, and an orchestrator like Dagster or Airflow
- Track record of leading technical work across multiple systems or teams and scoping ambiguous problems end-to-end
- Sound judgment about when to refactor, when to ship pragmatically, and how to leave systems better than you found them
- Strong written communication and ability to explain complex systems to non-engineers
- Genuine commitment to the mission of stopping fascism and building progressive power, and comfort operating on a political calendar
- Applicants must be legally eligible to work in the United States
- Sponsorship is not available
Benefits:
- Excellent health, dental, and vision benefits
- 401(k) matching
- Unlimited Paid Time Off
- Remote first culture with teammates all around the country
- Initial term of six (6) months, with potential to retain top performers


















