Senior Data Engineers

Movement Labs is an incubator and consulting firm that uses technology, data, and experimentation to stop fascism and build progressive power. We help progressives win and defeat MAGA extremists through year-round work grounded in research and real-world testing. Our team partners with leading advocacy groups, grassroots organizers, and electoral campaigns to develop innovative tactics, win elections, and shift power for the long term.

As the R&D powerhouse for the progressive movement, we’ve run over 100 randomized control trials (RCTs) on voter behavior and helped hundreds of organizations increase their impact. We work hard, and the environment evolves rapidly. We are adaptable, nimble, and shift quickly as needed to meet the moment. We are looking for candidates that thrive in this type of environment.

We are looking for 3 roles, Senior and Mid-level Data Engineers to join the Tech department. You will be a part of an 8-person data engineering team, and will have a lot of ownership and ability to make an impact. You’ll work cross-functionally in a collaborative, startup-like environment. 

• 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

Our data team’s work mixes greenfield builds, pragmatic plumbing, incident response, and operational work. The relative mix shifts with the political calendar.

• →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
• →Experience building production software 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

We’re looking for candidates with a wide range of skills and experience. If you’re excited about the job, even if you don’t match all the characteristics, we encourage you to apply.