Data Engineer enhancing Civic Searchlight database for investigative journalism and public-interest outcomes. Collaborating with technical leads and reporters for developing tools and features.
Responsibilities
Develop and maintain features for our flagship application Civic Searchlight for investigative journalism and other use cases
Discover new data sources and build pipelines to integrate them with existing infrastructure
Implement rigorous monitoring and testing procedures so the database stays reliable as coverage grows
Help build new tools on top of the database, including improved search, alerts, automated summaries and AI-assisted features
Contribute to architectural decisions as we move from prototype-scale to production infrastructure
Requirements
Strong data engineering skills, including designing and maintaining pipelines from messy sources
Experience with Python, Javascript, Svelte and SQL
Experience with automated testing and continuous integration
Comfortable developing collaboratively using git
Resourceful – willing to take initiative and dig into unfamiliar problems with a track record of getting them done
A bigger-picture thinker who can connect engineering decisions to journalistic and public-interest outcomes
Bonus: experience with speech-to-text models, LLMs, cloud infrastructure
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