Staff Data Platform Engineer

Who We Are

At Murmuration, we believe that America's promise is shaped and reshaped by the best ideas and ideals of its communities, and the dreams of the people who believe in a better life for themselves, their families, and each other.

We help organizations build power in their communities in four key ways: we organize a network of values-aligned partners; we provide deep, data-driven insights into people, places, and perspectives; we develop tools that make organizing and engagement easy and more effective; and we offer services that strengthen our partners' capacity to lead change in their communities.

We envision an America where every community has what it needs to help people lead healthy,

free, and dignified lives. We work to redesign the systems and structures we all depend on — how we learn, live, govern, and solve problems — so that they are just, equitable, resilient, and rooted in shared responsibility. By strengthening the ties that hold communities together, we aim for civic life defined by collective action and care, with effective leadership that truly represents everyone.

We are a collaborative, curious, and creative team of organizers, scientists, teachers, technologists, campaign veterans, and more who share the unwavering belief that we can use our gifts in service of transforming America — together.

We've built our team guided by the belief that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. And so we support each other relentlessly — rallying together to face challenges the same way we celebrate each other's wins.

About the Position

We are seeking a Staff Data Platform Engineer to build opinionated paved roads across engineering.   

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. Our team is intentionally multidisciplinary and partner-focused. We succeed together by aligning planning, execution, and learning across engineering, product, design, research, data, and partner success. We build complex, data-driven systems that need to work reliably during critical moments, scale as our partners grow, and remain understandable and maintainable as communities and their needs evolve.

Murmuration needs a Staff Data Platform Engineer who improves how teams provision, secure, monitor, troubleshoot, and operate production data systems. The role is hands-on, but its larger purpose is leverage:  reusable infrastructure, better defaults, clearer playbooks, and stronger operational visibility. This Staff role oversees operational efficiency: tuning, right-sizing, and choosing data stores. 

The Staff Data Platform Engineer is one of the key subject matter experts for datastores. The expertise includes designing, deploying, optimizing, securing, and maintaining databases in the cloud. Each team owns its own data stores, architecture, and access patterns, and you’ll help shape how those choices get made. Your scope will be both wide across teams, stacks, and technologies, as well as deep with a team and solution as required. 

This role is suited for a deeply experienced individual contributor whose technical judgment and engineering rigor raises the quality of deliverables across the entire organization. You excel in settings where product priorities and direction can shift rapidly. Your commitment to building inclusive, high-trust, and high-performing teams is visible across the technology organization. And you believe, like we do, that how we build is just as important as what we build.

Job Level: P5

What You’ll Do

As a Staff Data Platform Engineer, you will work across all engineering teams and report to one of our Directors of Software Engineering. You will define guidelines and processes for data access and storag