Staff Data Engineer

Summary

Join The Movement Cooperative as a Staff Data Engineer to lead technical development, architect data pipelines, and mentor the engineering team in shaping the organization's technical vision.

Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant software and/or data engineering experience
• 2+ years leading technical projects
• Deep familiarity with Python and SQL
• Experience architecting and maintaining complex environments made up of both custom-built applications and third-party applications, especially at scale
• Experience with implementing development best practices, including CI/CD, testing, and observability
• Comfort with data storage, data warehouse, task automation offerings and managing containerized orchestration (e.g. S3, Redshift, BigQuery, EC2, Kubernetes) on at least one of AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Demonstrated flexibility and adaptability to lead and motivate teams, guide others without direct authority, and influence organizational leadership to collective success
• Interest in overseeing and guiding engineering work that ranges from data engineering to full-stack web development
• Ability to coach and mentor engineers, including those who may have more or less content experience than oneself
• Dedication to furthering the reach and impact of TMC members' work
• Superior verbal and written communication, excellent presentation skills, and the ability to articulate complex concepts across varied functional audiences, including funders
• Commitment to incorporating diversity, equity, and inclusion into everyday work

Responsibilities

• Take a lead role in architecting data pipelines, with emphasis on interoperability of tool data
• Architect new systems, own tool selection, and lead technical aspects of the team vision
• Create design patterns that can be adopted by other teams (e.g. Solutions and Analytics Engineering) to deliver member-specific work
• Work with external partners such as MoveOn and the Movement Infrastructure Working Group (MIG) toward common data best practices for the progressive movement
• Serve as a thought partner to the Director of Engineering and CTO
• Drive best practices for software development and dev ops
• Implement CI/CD best practices
• Develop and implement an observability strategy
• Play a leading role in the design and maintenance of the data warehouse
• Lead the analysis and optimization of the warehouse for cost savings and performance
• Ensure security best practices are implemented
• Own quality of the overall code base
• Design and implement improvements to the team’s coding best practices
• Drive development of a testing strategy and increase in test coverage
• Contribute individually to the ongoing technical and sprint work of the team
• Mentor and support other members of the team
• Increase the overall depth of engineering knowledge on the team
• Pair with team members and provide feedback on pull requests
• Support the Director and CTO in building a cooperative and evolving team
• Support efforts to level up other teams in technical capacity and proficiency

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working on campaigns, electorally focused, advocacy, or political data organizations
• Comfort with a fully remote work environment
• Experience with common open source software packages used for ETL/ELT including dbt, Airbyte, Parsons, etc
• Previous DevOps experience
• Experience contributing to or robust participation in an open source community
• Experience building technical documentation

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• World-class healthcare, dental and vision benefits
• Retirement
• Unlimited paid vacation and sick days
• Flexible holidays
• All-staff holidays
• Remote virtual office
• Paid parental and adoption family leaves
• Health and wellness benefits