Senior Data Engineer

Movement Labs

Data Engineer supporting innovative progressive political efforts through advanced data architecture. Responsibilities include building scalable data systems and leading technical projects.

Posted 4/25/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $90,000 - $119,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AirflowBigQueryCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformPythonSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design and implement scalable data architecture for targeting and engagement
Serve as technical partner to program teams
Extend our foundational datasets to facilitate new outreach strategies
Load-test our 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 that makes our own team faster — QC agents for data deliveries, the evals to trust them, and context systems that keep our repos self-documenting
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

What you’ll need

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.
Nice to Have: 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

Benefits

Comp & perks

Full year equivalent salary of **$90,000–$99,000 for Data Engineer (Level 3) **or** $110,000-$119,000 for Senior Data Engineer (Level 5) **as part of a transparent salary structure with clear levels of advancement, and an additional Cost-of-Living salary Adjustment.
Excellent health, dental, and vision benefits, 401(k) matching, and unlimited Paid Time Off (vacation time is limited during Election Sprint, August 24–November 3).
Remote-first culture with teammates across the country.
These positions are temporary and will run through November 20. We love to keep top performers if possible.
These positions are not eligible for the collective bargaining unit.

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Hard Skills & Tools

SQLPythondata architecturedata pipelinesdata integrationsload testingexperimental frameworksdata quality controldata documentationdata optimization

Soft Skills

leadershipcommunicationproblem-solvingmentoringcollaborationjudgmentdocumentationproject managementadaptabilitycommitment