Responsibilities

As an Implementation Engineer, you sit at the intersection of engineering and partner success. You are part of the technical bridge between Recidiviz's core engineering platform and our state partners - writing the code that gets messy, real-world criminal justice data flowing reliably into our systems, while working closely with state agencies, SEMs, and product teams to define what gets built and why.
This role blends hands-on ingest engineering (building and maintaining data pipelines for state partners) with a meaningful customer-facing dimension: scoping technical approaches with state IT staff, surfacing insights that shape product direction, and building the kind of trust that turns a state DOC into a long-term Recidiviz champion. You should be comfortable moving fluidly between deep technical work and clear stakeholder communication.
Travel Requirement: Occasional travel (estimated 10%) to visit state partner sites for onboarding, relationship-building, and technical scoping. Travel is typically planned in advance and clustered around key milestones (e.g., new state launch, initiative kick-off).
Core responsibilities
Build and maintain state data ingest pipelines: write Python and SQL to ingest, normalize, and validate raw criminal justice data from state partners into Recidiviz's platform, handling messy schemas, legacy formats, and evolving data feeds.
Own your state portfolio end-to-end: serve as the primary technical owner for 1–2 state partners, managing ingest quality, resolving data issues, and prioritizing technical work in collaboration with your State Engagement Managers, Product Managers, Data Analysts, and Software Engineers.
Scope and deploy solutions in partnership with states: collaborate with state IT staff and agency leadership to understand data systems and constraints, define integration approaches, and translate partner needs into clear technical plans.
Drive initiatives from backlog to production: independently pick up and complete scoped tickets - from code remappings and raw data documentation to net-new ingest for newly signed states - with appropriate guidance from your technical lead.
Act as a feedback loop to product and engineering: bring on-the-ground context from partner deployments back to our core teams, helping to make the platform more robust, configurable, and scalable.
Support onboarding of new states: as new partners sign, contribute to ingest scoping and early pipeline work, helping Recidiviz move quickly from signed contract to live data.

Implementation Engineer at Recidiviz · LumiJobs

Implementation Engineer

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Recidiviz

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