Data Engineer Fellow
Center for New Data | Remote | Short-term
Data Engineer Fellow
Center for New Data | Remote | Short-term
Position Summary
The Center for New Data is a tech nonprofit dedicated to unlocking insights from big data to combat voter suppression. Our work has been featured in The New York Times; introduced as testimony to the U.S. Congress by leaders like Stacey Abrams; supported investigative features by the Washington Post and Center for Public Integrity; and helped reopen polling locations in Georgia’s 2021 Senate runoff election. Our current programs focus on fighting voter suppression and gerrymandering, leveraging location data from 30 million mobile devices and a national volunteer corps of data scientists, engineers, project managers, and software engineers.
We are seeking a Data Engineer Fellow to join our technical team through this fall’s midterm elections and focus on implementing key technical steps necessary for our voter protection data program. Working closely from our midterm elections roadmap, alongside our Head of Technology and Head of Data Science & Analytics, you will provide individual contributor work that is essential to powering our work in October and November.
There is a tremendous opportunity to use your high-level technical skills to drive massive, leveraged social impact that will protect our democracy. Your work will directly support our national coalition of voting rights partners, including Voting is Local, Common Cause, Fair Fight Action, the Campaign Legal Center. Your typical week will involve implementing tasks outlined on the technical roadmap, digging in hands-on to assess data pipelines or storage patterns or to provide final code and data quality assurance.
About Center for New Data
The Center for New Data was founded in 2020 to make evidence-based change possible by sharing insights from big data. Fast Company recently profiled the Center for New Data as “the nonprofit that will use big data to fight voter suppression in the midterm elections,” and we count many of the largest technology companies as among our partners in making this ambitious work possible — Snowflake, Splunk, JetBrains, and many others.
We are committed to closing the data divide by ensuring the same big, novel datasets currently used to target ads and power consumer apps can also be used to combat voter suppression and build a healthier democracy. We believe that in order for voting rights to be protected, they first need to be measured. We use new data to identify where in-person voting access is most problematic, which populations are most affected, and which solutions are most effective. Our data products detect voting rights violations at the local level and also paint a big picture about causes and patterns of voter suppression at the state and national level.
New Data will be producing and disseminating this novel data to dozens of national and grassroots partners in the 2022 midterm elections. In the years ahead, we intend to become a center of excellence for the use of data science to protect voting rights, serving our growing network of prominent partners across academia, nonprofits, and leading tech companies.
About the Role
Responsibilities:
- Implement productionization, e.g., CI/CD, permission isolation, and alerting and logging at various points throughout our data pipeline
- Implement bug fixes in SQL code
- Review code and algorithms
- Get hands-on, performing data engineering work on critical parts of our vote-time estimation pipeline
Required Skills:
- Data warehousing/ETL & dimensional modeling
- Intermediate to expert level command of SQL and Python
- Expert understanding of data pipelines, relational databases (e.g., Snowflake Database)
- Strong aptitude for statistical modeling and other data science techniques
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 3 years as a data engineer
- Ability to understand and work across our tech stack:
- Data scheduling and execution frameworks (e.g., Airflow, Pachyderm)
- Data warehousing/ETL & dimensional modeling
- Python and SQL (with emphasis on distributed datastores)
- Large-scale distributed data stores (e.g., Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery)
- Cloud-heavy environments and distributed file systems (e.g., AWS)
- Familiarity with Git and Agile methodologies
Preferred Skills:
- Familiarity with modern business intelligence and reporting platforms, e.g., Looker and PowerBI
- Familiarity with GIS and other forms of novel data
- Familiarity with big data infrastructure, e.g., S3, Snowflake, and Astronomer
Time Commitment:
- Minimum of 20 hours per week (40 hours preferred) with immediate availability
- Three month contract through the peak of election season, from mid-August to mid-November
Compensation and Benefits
- The total compensation for this role is $10,000 (part-time) or $20,000 (full-time)
- A fully remote work environment (for US-based employees)
- The opportunity to leverage your high-level technical skills to drive substantial impact during the 2022 midterm elections
Application Process
Applications will be accepted and reviewed on a rolling basis, but we will begin reviewing candidates on August 8, 2022. Please note that we are unable to consider candidates based outside of the United States at this time.
Center for New Data is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer fully dedicated to achieving a diverse staff. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, and sexual orientation), disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Date Posted
08/04/22
Job Role
Analytics, Data & Data Management, Engineer, Technology
Location
Remote
Salary
How to Apply
Position Summary
The Center for New Data is a tech nonprofit dedicated to unlocking insights from big data to combat voter suppression. Our work has been featured in The New York Times; introduced as testimony to the U.S. Congress by leaders like Stacey Abrams; supported investigative features by the Washington Post and Center for Public Integrity; and helped reopen polling locations in Georgia’s 2021 Senate runoff election. Our current programs focus on fighting voter suppression and gerrymandering, leveraging location data from 30 million mobile devices and a national volunteer corps of data scientists, engineers, project managers, and software engineers.
We are seeking a Data Engineer Fellow to join our technical team through this fall’s midterm elections and focus on implementing key technical steps necessary for our voter protection data program. Working closely from our midterm elections roadmap, alongside our Head of Technology and Head of Data Science & Analytics, you will provide individual contributor work that is essential to powering our work in October and November.
There is a tremendous opportunity to use your high-level technical skills to drive massive, leveraged social impact that will protect our democracy. Your work will directly support our national coalition of voting rights partners, including Voting is Local, Common Cause, Fair Fight Action, the Campaign Legal Center. Your typical week will involve implementing tasks outlined on the technical roadmap, digging in hands-on to assess data pipelines or storage patterns or to provide final code and data quality assurance.
About Center for New Data
The Center for New Data was founded in 2020 to make evidence-based change possible by sharing insights from big data. Fast Company recently profiled the Center for New Data as “the nonprofit that will use big data to fight voter suppression in the midterm elections,” and we count many of the largest technology companies as among our partners in making this ambitious work possible — Snowflake, Splunk, JetBrains, and many others.
We are committed to closing the data divide by ensuring the same big, novel datasets currently used to target ads and power consumer apps can also be used to combat voter suppression and build a healthier democracy. We believe that in order for voting rights to be protected, they first need to be measured. We use new data to identify where in-person voting access is most problematic, which populations are most affected, and which solutions are most effective. Our data products detect voting rights violations at the local level and also paint a big picture about causes and patterns of voter suppression at the state and national level.
New Data will be producing and disseminating this novel data to dozens of national and grassroots partners in the 2022 midterm elections. In the years ahead, we intend to become a center of excellence for the use of data science to protect voting rights, serving our growing network of prominent partners across academia, nonprofits, and leading tech companies.
About the Role
Responsibilities:
- Implement productionization, e.g., CI/CD, permission isolation, and alerting and logging at various points throughout our data pipeline
- Implement bug fixes in SQL code
- Review code and algorithms
- Get hands-on, performing data engineering work on critical parts of our vote-time estimation pipeline
Required Skills:
- Data warehousing/ETL & dimensional modeling
- Intermediate to expert level command of SQL and Python
- Expert understanding of data pipelines, relational databases (e.g., Snowflake Database)
- Strong aptitude for statistical modeling and other data science techniques
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 3 years as a data engineer
- Ability to understand and work across our tech stack:
- Data scheduling and execution frameworks (e.g., Airflow, Pachyderm)
- Data warehousing/ETL & dimensional modeling
- Python and SQL (with emphasis on distributed datastores)
- Large-scale distributed data stores (e.g., Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery)
- Cloud-heavy environments and distributed file systems (e.g., AWS)
- Familiarity with Git and Agile methodologies
Preferred Skills:
- Familiarity with modern business intelligence and reporting platforms, e.g., Looker and PowerBI
- Familiarity with GIS and other forms of novel data
- Familiarity with big data infrastructure, e.g., S3, Snowflake, and Astronomer
Time Commitment:
- Minimum of 20 hours per week (40 hours preferred) with immediate availability
- Three month contract through the peak of election season, from mid-August to mid-November
Compensation and Benefits
- The total compensation for this role is $10,000 (part-time) or $20,000 (full-time)
- A fully remote work environment (for US-based employees)
- The opportunity to leverage your high-level technical skills to drive substantial impact during the 2022 midterm elections
Application Process
Applications will be accepted and reviewed on a rolling basis, but we will begin reviewing candidates on August 8, 2022. Please note that we are unable to consider candidates based outside of the United States at this time.
Center for New Data is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer fully dedicated to achieving a diverse staff. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, and sexual orientation), disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Data Engineer Fellow
Center for New Data | Remote | Short-term
Position Summary
The Center for New Data is a tech nonprofit dedicated to unlocking insights from big data to combat voter suppression. Our work has been featured in The New York Times; introduced as testimony to the U.S. Congress by leaders like Stacey Abrams; supported investigative features by the Washington Post and Center for Public Integrity; and helped reopen polling locations in Georgia’s 2021 Senate runoff election. Our current programs focus on fighting voter suppression and gerrymandering, leveraging location data from 30 million mobile devices and a national volunteer corps of data scientists, engineers, project managers, and software engineers.
We are seeking a Data Engineer Fellow to join our technical team through this fall’s midterm elections and focus on implementing key technical steps necessary for our voter protection data program. Working closely from our midterm elections roadmap, alongside our Head of Technology and Head of Data Science & Analytics, you will provide individual contributor work that is essential to powering our work in October and November.
There is a tremendous opportunity to use your high-level technical skills to drive massive, leveraged social impact that will protect our democracy. Your work will directly support our national coalition of voting rights partners, including Voting is Local, Common Cause, Fair Fight Action, the Campaign Legal Center. Your typical week will involve implementing tasks outlined on the technical roadmap, digging in hands-on to assess data pipelines or storage patterns or to provide final code and data quality assurance.
About Center for New Data
The Center for New Data was founded in 2020 to make evidence-based change possible by sharing insights from big data. Fast Company recently profiled the Center for New Data as “the nonprofit that will use big data to fight voter suppression in the midterm elections,” and we count many of the largest technology companies as among our partners in making this ambitious work possible — Snowflake, Splunk, JetBrains, and many others.
We are committed to closing the data divide by ensuring the same big, novel datasets currently used to target ads and power consumer apps can also be used to combat voter suppression and build a healthier democracy. We believe that in order for voting rights to be protected, they first need to be measured. We use new data to identify where in-person voting access is most problematic, which populations are most affected, and which solutions are most effective. Our data products detect voting rights violations at the local level and also paint a big picture about causes and patterns of voter suppression at the state and national level.
New Data will be producing and disseminating this novel data to dozens of national and grassroots partners in the 2022 midterm elections. In the years ahead, we intend to become a center of excellence for the use of data science to protect voting rights, serving our growing network of prominent partners across academia, nonprofits, and leading tech companies.
About the Role
Responsibilities:
- Implement productionization, e.g., CI/CD, permission isolation, and alerting and logging at various points throughout our data pipeline
- Implement bug fixes in SQL code
- Review code and algorithms
- Get hands-on, performing data engineering work on critical parts of our vote-time estimation pipeline
Required Skills:
- Data warehousing/ETL & dimensional modeling
- Intermediate to expert level command of SQL and Python
- Expert understanding of data pipelines, relational databases (e.g., Snowflake Database)
- Strong aptitude for statistical modeling and other data science techniques
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 3 years as a data engineer
- Ability to understand and work across our tech stack:
- Data scheduling and execution frameworks (e.g., Airflow, Pachyderm)
- Data warehousing/ETL & dimensional modeling
- Python and SQL (with emphasis on distributed datastores)
- Large-scale distributed data stores (e.g., Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery)
- Cloud-heavy environments and distributed file systems (e.g., AWS)
- Familiarity with Git and Agile methodologies
Preferred Skills:
- Familiarity with modern business intelligence and reporting platforms, e.g., Looker and PowerBI
- Familiarity with GIS and other forms of novel data
- Familiarity with big data infrastructure, e.g., S3, Snowflake, and Astronomer
Time Commitment:
- Minimum of 20 hours per week (40 hours preferred) with immediate availability
- Three month contract through the peak of election season, from mid-August to mid-November
Compensation and Benefits
- The total compensation for this role is $10,000 (part-time) or $20,000 (full-time)
- A fully remote work environment (for US-based employees)
- The opportunity to leverage your high-level technical skills to drive substantial impact during the 2022 midterm elections
Application Process
Applications will be accepted and reviewed on a rolling basis, but we will begin reviewing candidates on August 8, 2022. Please note that we are unable to consider candidates based outside of the United States at this time.
Center for New Data is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer fully dedicated to achieving a diverse staff. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, and sexual orientation), disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Data Engineer Fellow
Center for New Data | Remote | Short-term
Position Summary
The Center for New Data is a tech nonprofit dedicated to unlocking insights from big data to combat voter suppression. Our work has been featured in The New York Times; introduced as testimony to the U.S. Congress by leaders like Stacey Abrams; supported investigative features by the Washington Post and Center for Public Integrity; and helped reopen polling locations in Georgia’s 2021 Senate runoff election. Our current programs focus on fighting voter suppression and gerrymandering, leveraging location data from 30 million mobile devices and a national volunteer corps of data scientists, engineers, project managers, and software engineers.
We are seeking a Data Engineer Fellow to join our technical team through this fall’s midterm elections and focus on implementing key technical steps necessary for our voter protection data program. Working closely from our midterm elections roadmap, alongside our Head of Technology and Head of Data Science & Analytics, you will provide individual contributor work that is essential to powering our work in October and November.
There is a tremendous opportunity to use your high-level technical skills to drive massive, leveraged social impact that will protect our democracy. Your work will directly support our national coalition of voting rights partners, including Voting is Local, Common Cause, Fair Fight Action, the Campaign Legal Center. Your typical week will involve implementing tasks outlined on the technical roadmap, digging in hands-on to assess data pipelines or storage patterns or to provide final code and data quality assurance.
About Center for New Data
The Center for New Data was founded in 2020 to make evidence-based change possible by sharing insights from big data. Fast Company recently profiled the Center for New Data as “the nonprofit that will use big data to fight voter suppression in the midterm elections,” and we count many of the largest technology companies as among our partners in making this ambitious work possible — Snowflake, Splunk, JetBrains, and many others.
We are committed to closing the data divide by ensuring the same big, novel datasets currently used to target ads and power consumer apps can also be used to combat voter suppression and build a healthier democracy. We believe that in order for voting rights to be protected, they first need to be measured. We use new data to identify where in-person voting access is most problematic, which populations are most affected, and which solutions are most effective. Our data products detect voting rights violations at the local level and also paint a big picture about causes and patterns of voter suppression at the state and national level.
New Data will be producing and disseminating this novel data to dozens of national and grassroots partners in the 2022 midterm elections. In the years ahead, we intend to become a center of excellence for the use of data science to protect voting rights, serving our growing network of prominent partners across academia, nonprofits, and leading tech companies.
About the Role
Responsibilities:
- Implement productionization, e.g., CI/CD, permission isolation, and alerting and logging at various points throughout our data pipeline
- Implement bug fixes in SQL code
- Review code and algorithms
- Get hands-on, performing data engineering work on critical parts of our vote-time estimation pipeline
Required Skills:
- Data warehousing/ETL & dimensional modeling
- Intermediate to expert level command of SQL and Python
- Expert understanding of data pipelines, relational databases (e.g., Snowflake Database)
- Strong aptitude for statistical modeling and other data science techniques
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 3 years as a data engineer
- Ability to understand and work across our tech stack:
- Data scheduling and execution frameworks (e.g., Airflow, Pachyderm)
- Data warehousing/ETL & dimensional modeling
- Python and SQL (with emphasis on distributed datastores)
- Large-scale distributed data stores (e.g., Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery)
- Cloud-heavy environments and distributed file systems (e.g., AWS)
- Familiarity with Git and Agile methodologies
Preferred Skills:
- Familiarity with modern business intelligence and reporting platforms, e.g., Looker and PowerBI
- Familiarity with GIS and other forms of novel data
- Familiarity with big data infrastructure, e.g., S3, Snowflake, and Astronomer
Time Commitment:
- Minimum of 20 hours per week (40 hours preferred) with immediate availability
- Three month contract through the peak of election season, from mid-August to mid-November
Compensation and Benefits
- The total compensation for this role is $10,000 (part-time) or $20,000 (full-time)
- A fully remote work environment (for US-based employees)
- The opportunity to leverage your high-level technical skills to drive substantial impact during the 2022 midterm elections
Application Process
Applications will be accepted and reviewed on a rolling basis, but we will begin reviewing candidates on August 8, 2022. Please note that we are unable to consider candidates based outside of the United States at this time.
Center for New Data is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer fully dedicated to achieving a diverse staff. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, and sexual orientation), disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.