Data Platform Engineer
$160k - $500k • San Francisco • FullTime
Posted 1mo ago
About the job
Mercor is a leading AI data company building the layer between human expertise and frontier models. Millions of domain experts are paid daily to train frontier AI models, and Mercor Enterprise brings this infrastructure to Fortune 500 companies to capture and translate their best people's expertise directly into agents. This role is a foundational hire on a new Data Platform team, responsible for the infrastructure that every data-driven team at Mercor runs on, including Snowflake, Fivetran, Airflow, and Hex. You will own how data is organized, access controls, operational costs, and reliability, setting standards for other engineers.
Responsibilities
- Bring structure and clear ownership to data organization in Snowflake across projects and teams.
- Design and implement role-based access controls, automating granting and revocation.
- Extend row access policies and PII masking for sensitive datasets.
- Migrate data from various sources into governed data homes.
- Manage Fivetran connector health and cost, Airflow/Astronomer pipeline reliability, and Hex governance.
- Monitor and optimize Snowflake warehouse spend.
- Assist in building CDC/streaming ingestion and other internal data platform tooling.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience with Snowflake administration (roles, grants, warehouses, cost/performance tuning).
- Experience designing data access and governance models (RBAC, row-level security, PII) at scale.
- Comfort owning vendor tooling end-to-end (Fivetran, Airflow/Astronomer, or similar), including on-call responsibilities.
- Proven track record migrating or re-architecting live production data systems without impacting dependent teams.
- Strong SQL and Python skills, with infrastructure fluency for making informed judgment calls.
- Experience owning CDC/streaming pipelines in production (e.g., Debezium, Kafka, Snowpipe Streaming), including delivery semantics, partitioning, and safe cutovers.
Benefits
- Bi-annual performance bonus structure
- Generous equity grant vested over 4 years
- Up to $15k Relocation bonus
- $10K housing bonus (if living within 0.5 miles of office)
- $1.5K monthly stipend for meals
- Free Equinox membership
- $200 monthly laundry reimbursement
- $200 monthly personal wellness reimbursement
- Health, Dental, Vision insurance