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Senior Data Engineer, Elections

Change.org, the world's largest social change platform and a public benefit company, seeks a Senior Data Engineer for its Elections Team to build scalable election tools that empower informed voting across the 2025/2026 election cycle. The role involves designing robust data pipelines, ensuring data integrity, collaborating cross-functionally, and delivering innovative civic data products.

Skills

  • Expertise in designing and operating data pipelines with conflict resolution and data quality controls.
  • Strong skills in relational databases, particularly PostgreSQL, including schema design and indexing.
  • Proficiency with technologies such as Nest.js, Prisma, GraphQL, and Node.js.
  • Experience with cloud data platforms and data lake technologies (AWS S3, Kinesis, Lambda, Glue, Spectrum, Redshift).
  • Ability to collaborate technically across teams to define data contracts and API resilience.
  • Familiarity with real-time streaming data and distributed columnar data stores.

Responsibilities

  • Participate in all stages of data product development including ideation, building, scaling, and validation.
  • Design and operate ETL/ELT pipelines to unify data from multiple civic sources into authoritative datasets.
  • Develop and evolve data models for efficient lookups of election-related information by geography and jurisdiction.
  • Ensure data reliability and integrity through monitoring and reconciliation strategies.
  • Collaborate with frontend, API teams, analysts, and content editors to align on data structure and semantics.
  • Lead technical decision-making and reduce technical debt while advocating for data standards and availability.
  • Continuously improve data workflows, tooling, and documentation for internal team use.
  • Participate in on-call rotations as part of operational support.

Education

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or related field preferred.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary based on location with pay equity commitment.
  • Remote work flexibility across multiple U.S. states and Canada.
  • Inclusive onboarding and diversity programs.
  • Employee affinity groups and heritage celebrations.
  • Training in cross-cultural collaboration.
  • Reasonable accommodations during recruitment for disabilities.
  • Transparent salary scales and equal employment opportunity.
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Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Health Savings Account (HSA)
Vision Insurance
Family Medical Leave
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DATE POSTED
July 12, 2025
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