Senior / Staff Software Engineer

CTA is seeking a Senior or Staff Software Engineer to help build and scale PAD, CTA’s flagship data infrastructure platform serving progressive organizations across the country. This role involves working on a wide-ranging codebase, contributing to the organization's culture, and building data products and pipelines.

Responsibilities:

• Help build and scale PAD, CTA’s flagship data infrastructure platform serving progressive organizations across the country
• Work on a wide-ranging codebase inclusive of AI toolkits
• Bring a security-first mindset to development
• Directly contribute to the culture and success of the organization
• Build and maintain data products and pipelines using industry-standard tools and languages
• Be comfortable with deployment and operations in the cloud

Requirements:

• You have experience collaborating closely with product teams and building with user experience at the forefront
• You have strong written and verbal communication skills
• You bring a security-first mindset to how you build and support products
• You act autonomously, thrive in a team environment, and are excited to work in a fully remote role
• You are able to work with ambiguous requirements and find creative, practical solutions
• You have experience implementing performant, test-driven code in ETL platforms
• You have experience with infrastructure and deployments in cloud environments
• You have experience working in a data warehouse or analytics-focused database
• You're excited about AI and how it fits into software and data engineering workflows -- you don't need to be an expert, but you're been experimenting in Claude Code or Codex
• Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without restriction
• Must be located in the US
• We are a fully remote organization with synchronous core working hours (12–4pm ET)