Data Engineer / Senior Data Engineer

Movement Labs is an incubator and consulting firm that uses technology and data to support progressive causes. They are seeking a Data Engineer / Senior Data Engineer to design and implement scalable data architecture, optimize data platforms, and lead projects that enhance their data capabilities during critical election periods.

Responsibilities:

• Shape the pipelines and integrations feeding our RCT platform and our foundational voter datasets: the APIs, replication, federation layers, experiment randomization, and the failure modes that come with running data systems for hundreds of partner organizations on a non-negotiable political calendar
• Extend our data platform and orchestration layer, and optimize it for cost, runtime, and reliability so it holds up during the elections, with millions of outreach attempts
• Lead projects that span multiple systems and teams — scoping, designing, and driving them to real milestones
• Hold the bar on quality — test and validate your own work, review teammates’ code, and mentor through that review
• Document and communicate — make your systems understandable to teammates, stakeholders, and non-engineers
• Rotate through on-call and rapid response, including evenings and weekends during high-stakes moments like election cycles

Requirements:

• Passionate about progressive politics and leveraging data, technology, organizing, and research to build political power
• 3–6+ years of experience (Senior or Mid-level) in designing, building, and operating production data pipelines and integrations
• Strong proficiency in SQL and Python, with hands-on experience across a modern data stack — cloud data warehouses (BigQuery or similar), a transformation framework like dbt, and an orchestrator like Dagster or Airflow
• A 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 — you document what you build and can 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
• Experience in the progressive, political, advocacy, or nonprofit sector — including awareness of c3/c4/PAC boundaries and the sensitivities of political and voter data
• Familiarity with election results, voter file data, and the tools campaigns use to organize, text, and contact voters
• Experience on Google Cloud Platform
• Experience in on-call rotations and mentoring less-experienced engineers