Staff Software Engineer

Role Description

Do you see yourself as a mission-driven engineer who believes that great products emerge from strong teams? Do you thrive in inclusive, thoughtful environments where engineers hold themselves to high standards of technical excellence, ownership, and impact at scale?

We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to contribute to one of our most ambitious efforts: building a new product from the ground up while raising the bar for how our entire engineering organization works.

Murmuration builds technology that helps our partner organizations strengthen civic engagement and organize more effectively in their communities. Our products weave together engagement, outreach, demographic, and voter data with intuitive applications that help partners better understand and act within the communities they serve.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will join the Explorer Team as we evolve the product into general availability from its pilot implementation. Explorer is a data visualization product that facilitates political data exploration using interactive maps, charts, and exportable tables, supplemented by an NLP-powered search function.

On this small, close-knit team, you will establish the engineering patterns, operational foundations, and testing strategies needed to evolve Explorer into a secure, reliable, GA-ready platform.

• Drive to General Availability
• Elevate the Team
• Lead Beyond Explorer
• Technical Depth and Judgement
• Scope, Initiative, and Execution
• Organizational Impact

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience with demonstrated full-stack fluency.
• Experience taking a product from beta to general availability.
• Experience driving secure coding practices, data privacy principles, and access control patterns.
• A test-driven mindset with experience writing, maintaining, and driving test strategy.
• A track record of effective collaboration with product, data science, and R&D teams.

Requirements

• Solid foundation in relational databases, including PostgreSQL.
• Experience with analytical or columnar datastores (e.g., Apache Pinot, ClickHouse, BigQuery).
• Experience working with modern data warehousing and transformation workflows powered by Snowflake and dbt.
• Experience with data pipeline orchestration tools such as Dagster or Airflow.
• Deep experience with cloud-native architectures and distributed systems.
• Experience driving secure coding practices and data privacy principles.

Benefits

• Health, vision, and dental insurance with 100% of premiums covered for you and qualifying family members.
• Retirement benefits with a 5% employer match.
• A flexible unlimited PTO plan.
• Generous paid parental leave.
• Pre-tax commuter benefits.
• A company laptop.
• A flexible remote work environment.
• A home office setup stipend for all new employees.
• Monthly reimbursement for remote work expenses.
• A yearly professional development fund.
• Mental health and wellness benefits through Calm and Better Help.
• Yearly in-person staff retreats.
• A welcoming culture that celebrates diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.