Implementation Engineer

Recidiviz

. Build and maintain state data ingest pipelines: write Python and SQL to ingest, normalize, and validate raw criminal justice data from state partners into Recidiviz's platform, handling messy schemas, legacy formats, and evolving data feeds.

Posted 4/29/2026full-timeRemote • California, New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesJuniorMid-Level💰 $97,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

PythonSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Build and maintain state data ingest pipelines: write Python and SQL to ingest, normalize, and validate raw criminal justice data from state partners into Recidiviz's platform, handling messy schemas, legacy formats, and evolving data feeds.
Own your state portfolio end-to-end: serve as the primary technical owner for 1–2 state partners, managing ingest quality, resolving data issues, and prioritizing technical work in collaboration with your State Engagement Managers, Product Managers, Data Analysts, and Software Engineers.
Scope and deploy solutions in partnership with states: collaborate with state IT staff and agency leadership to understand data systems and constraints, define integration approaches, and translate partner needs into clear technical plans.
Drive initiatives from backlog to production: independently pick up and complete scoped tickets - from code remappings and raw data documentation to net-new ingest for newly signed states - with appropriate guidance from your technical lead.
Act as a feedback loop to product and engineering: bring on-the-ground context from partner deployments back to our core teams, helping to make the platform more robust, configurable, and scalable.
Support onboarding of new states: as new partners sign, contribute to ingest scoping and early pipeline work, helping Recidiviz move quickly from signed contract to live data.

Requirements

What you’ll need

High empathy and kindness - genuine care for the mission and the people we serve
2+ years of experience building, maintaining, or debugging data pipelines in a production environment
Strong proficiency in SQL and relational databases, with an appetite for wrangling large-scale, messy data
Solid Python skills - comfortable writing clean, testable scripts and pipeline code
Experience working cross-functionally or in a customer-facing capacity, with the ability to communicate technical concepts to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders
Comfort with ambiguity: you can explore an undocumented legacy system, form a hypothesis, and write code to test it
Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent experience.

Benefits

Comp & perks

90% medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage for you and your dependents
Flexible time off, including 20 days of PTO, 3 days of paid volunteering time, and 13 paid holidays per year
401(k) retirement plan with 5% company match and no vesting period
12 weeks of paid parental leave
Complimentary One Medical membership (availability based on location)
Partnership with Carrot to provide employees with inclusive fertility and family-forming benefits, as well as a small but growing number of hormonal health and gender-affirming care benefits
Monthly ClassPass credit for personal wellness
Free mental health support via Talkspace
Well-located offices in Oakland and Manhattan, with the flexibility to work remotely or go into either office as you choose
An annual company offsite and other ad-hoc gatherings
All the exhilarating challenges and stretch opportunities of a tech startup, combined with the mission-driven heart of a nonprofit

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Hard Skills & Tools

PythonSQLdata pipelinesdata normalizationdata validationrelational databasesdata wranglingcode remappingpipeline codedata documentation

Soft Skills

empathykindnesscommunicationcross-functional collaborationcustomer-facingproblem-solvingadaptabilitytechnical ownershipfeedbackinitiative

Certifications

Bachelor's degree in a technical field