Staff Data Engineer

MissionWired

Staff Data Engineer transforming millions of data points into opportunities for social good at MissionWired. Supporting diverse causes from fundraising to climate change initiatives.

Posted 6/23/2026full-timeRemote • Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $130,000 - $150,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

ApacheSpark

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Solving our unique data-lake challenges: transforming and seamlessly normalizing highly varied partner datasets (such as donation data);
Design robust batch-processing pipelines capable of extracting and loading massive datasets from a variety of internal, external, and public sources;
Developing processes for data mining, data modeling, and data production;
Leveraging modern technology knowledge to champion evolving industry trends, updated design patterns, and engineering excellence across the team;
Autonomously scope, design, and execute complex data projects from day one, turning ambiguous requirements into clear, decisive technical plans;
Developing robust testing and monitoring systems for scheduled processes;
Collaborating with cross-functional teams to support their data infrastructure needs;
Joining each and every one of your colleagues in creating an inclusive workspace.

Requirements

What you’ll need

5 years of professional software engineering experience;
Eagerness to mentor and technically guide engineering teams;
Experience guiding technical decision making;
Extensive, hands-on experience building distributed data pipelines using Apache Spark;
Knowledge of how to build and optimize data pipelines, architectures and data sets with the ability to drive additional learning for knowledge gaps;
Experience managing data warehouses and/or data lakes;
Intellectual curiosity to innovate on ways to solve data management issues;
Passion, energy, and excitement for progressive and philanthropic causes.

Benefits

Comp & perks

100% employer-paid premiums for platinum-level medical plan on a national health care network
100% employer-paid life insurance and short term disability
50% employer-paid vision and dental insurance
401(k) with 3% employer contribution
20 vacation days in addition to 12 paid holidays, sick days, bereavement leave, and a volunteer day off.
Paid parental leave at 100% of your salary
Financial support for reproductive and transgender care
Flexible telecommute and remote work policies
Company issued Mac products for home offices
Cell phone service reimbursement, meal and ride-share reimbursement, and other perks available

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Hard Skills & Tools

data miningdata modelingdata productionbatch-processing pipelinesdata pipelinesdata architecturesApache Sparkdata warehousesdata lakestesting and monitoring systems

Soft Skills

mentoringtechnical guidancecollaborationinnovationintellectual curiositypassionenergyexcitementleadershipcommunication