Staff Data Engineer

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $128.9k - $157.8k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🚰 Data Engineer

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Code for America

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2009

🤲 Charity

🏛️ Government

🌍 Social Impact

Charity • Government • Social Impact

Code for America is a non-partisan, non-political 501(c)(3) charitable organization dedicated to improving government services and fostering resilient communities. The organization leverages technology to simplify access to food benefits, tax filing, criminal record clearance, and more, aiming to break down barriers and find real solutions for individuals across the country. Through partnerships with governments and communities, Code for America designs human-centered applications and provides consulting and advisory services to enhance social safety nets and government processes. By building tools and resources that facilitate easier benefit enrollment and tax services, Code for America strives to create a more inclusive government that works for everyone.

📋 Description

• Lead cross-functional technical planning with Data Scientists, Software Engineers, and Product Managers to translate data architecture requirements into scalable technical solutions • Create new data pipelines, data transfers, and compliance-oriented infrastructure within cloud environments • Contribute to dataset management and optimization for data consistency and performance • Implement data transformation, integration, and validation processes for analytics and reporting • Partner with DevOps on deployment standards, monitoring frameworks, and operational best practices • Lead technical investigations into data issues, resolve them, and recommend process changes • Optimize data pipelines for speed, reliability, and efficiency • Lead data architecture recommendations and implement them • Champion privacy, security, and data governance throughout the data lifecycle • Produce technical documentation and learning materials • Develop and reinforce data engineering best practices and standards • Collaborate with Product Managers and cross-functional peers as priorities, technology, and team needs shift • Mentor engineers and data scientists on pipeline design, data engineering practices, and architectural thinking • Engage in ad hoc projects and initiatives as organizational needs evolve • Report to a Data Science Manager; travel no more than 10% of the time

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in data engineering or related technical fields • Expert-level SQL and experience with python, R • Experience with Postgres and cloud-based data warehousing (e.g. BigQuery, Snowflake) • Expert at data orchestration tools (e.g. Dagster) for building and managing data pipelines • Expert at using dbt for data transformation and modeling within data warehouses • Demonstrated experience with Metabase or similar business intelligence tools (e.g. Tableau, PowerBI, Looker) • Experience in ensuring that data pipelines are accessible to Data Scientists through notebook tools (e.g. Hex) • Experience with cloud infrastructure and infrastructure as code • Excellent collaboration skills, with a demonstrated ability to manage cross-functional relationships, respond to stakeholder needs, and facilitate effective decision-making conversations • Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English • Demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools judiciously, validating and refining generated code for quality, and modeling that discipline for teammates • A deep commitment to Code for America's mission of making government services work well for the people who need them most • Bonus: Experience with making government services better for people who need them most • Bonus: Personal or professional experience with the social safety net or other mission-relevant government services • Bonus: Experience building and integrating AI-powered features in production systems, with evaluation and monitoring

🏖️ Benefits

• Leadership and teammates who share a strong work ethic and values, and who respect and care for one another • A collaborative, cross-functional, hardworking, and joyful environment • Laptop provided • A one-time $700 payment for remote environment setup; $200 stipend (in first paycheck) and up to $500 reimbursement, in accordance with our equipment policy • Cell phone and/or internet reimbursement of $50 per month • $500 annual (per calendar year) stipend towards professional development; prorated at time of hire • Up to $500 of professional development funds can be rolled over each year, up to a maximum of $1000 • Training / guidance for staff required to utilize AI as part of their role, plus opportunities for employees to gain AI-related skills to support job and career growth • Employees receive a 100% employer match on the first 3% of contributions • Employees with 3+ years of service receive an additional 50% match on contributions between 3% and 5%, for a maximum employer contribution of 5% • At least one no cost health insurance option for full-time employees for employee-only coverage • A minimum of 80% of the cost of dependent coverage • Code for America employees may work remotely across the US • Full-time employees work 40 hours per week, Monday - Friday • Open personal time off (subject to manager approval), a minimum of 14 paid holidays, and an org-wide closure from Christmas Day through New Year's Day • Paid sick time; up to 96 hours annually • 17 weeks of paid parental and family leave • 3 weeks of paid sabbatical after 5 years of service