Data Engineer

Organization Overview

America Votes works with over 400 state and national partner organizations to advance progressive policies, win elections, and protect every American’s right to vote.

Since 2003, America Votes has been the common link between many of the largest and most influential issue and membership organizations in the country, serving as the coordination hub of the progressive community. America Votes’ work has brought together a wide range of causes and built a unified coalition that has transformed how the progressive community works. Together, they have engaged communities across the country to take action on critical issues – from fighting for working families, defending reproductive rights, protecting the environment, and more – and mobilized millions of voters.

America Votes works year-round nationally and in more than 20 states, acting as a permanent campaign to continually advance progressive causes, modernize elections, and win elections. America Votes provides a range of services to partners, including strategic planning, advocacy and electoral campaign coordination, data tools and targeting services, and on-the-ground leadership in key states.

America Votes also works to improve election systems and fight back against efforts to suppress voters, taking the lead throughout their state network to coordinate and execute advocacy campaigns with allies to reform elections and modernize the voting process.

As a leader of collaborative efforts to mobilize voters, protect voting rights, and win elections, America Votes is committed to advancing racial equity within our organization and across our coalition. We acknowledge the systematic racism that permeates all facets of our society, beginning with the foundational right to vote. America Votes is also engaging with an understanding of the ways gender, sexuality and other forms of oppression intersect with race and how those relationships impact inequities faced by our staff, our partners, and the communities that we engage in our work.

America Votes strives to model our commitment to racial equity through our internal and external operations, programs, and partnerships. We acknowledge the inequitable structures that continue to exist and are moving forward with a sustained commitment in time, resources and people to challenge structural racism and work towards creating a reflective organization and democracy.

America Votes is looking for a full-time Data Engineer for the 2026 cycle. This person will build and maintain the pipelines, models, and infrastructure that power data work across the progressive movement. This hybrid role sits at the intersection of data engineering and analytics engineering: you will write Python to move data in and out of our warehouse, write SQL and dbt models to transform it into something usable, and collaborate closely with other engineers, national analysts, and state data staff who depend on the tools you build.

The ideal candidate has worked in progressive political data and has taken on data engineering type projects in past roles (even if they didn’t come with a data engineer title). You should have solid fundamentals: strong SQL, comfort with Python, and familiarity with modern data stack and cloud database environments. The 2026 cycle moves fast, and we’re looking for someone who can hit the ground running, ask the right questions, and isn’t afraid to dive into messy projects.

This is a 2026 cycle hire role that reports to the National Director of Engineering and Product and is contracted to end Dec 31, 2026.

• SQL and dbt development:
  Write and maintain SQL and dbt models that transform data in our warehouse, adding new models, refactoring existing code, writing tests, and improving documentation.
• Pipeline Engineering:
  Make additions to GCP pipelines that load data into our Big Query warehouse and send data out of Big Query to other platforms.
• Supporting Staff:
  Collaborate with national and state data staff to build tables, pipelines, and tools that help our team do their jobs more effectively.
• Internal Leadership:
  Contribute to data strategy…