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Data Engineer

Mercor· Engineering
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San Francisco$160k - $500kFull-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Mercor is seeking a Data Engineer to build and maintain data pipelines, focusing on reliability, availability, and timeliness. The role involves collaborating with Data Science, Engineering, and Product teams to ensure data availability and quality across ingestion to consumption, and to continuously improve pipeline performance and scalability.

Responsibilities

  • Building robust pipelines to ingest, transform, and consolidate data from diverse sources (e.g., MongoDB, Airtable, PostHog, production databases).
  • Designing dbt models and transformations to standardize and unify many disparate tables into clean, production-ready schemas.
  • Implementing scalable, fault-tolerant data workflows with Fivetran, dbt, SQL, and Python.
  • Partnering with engineers, data scientists, and business stakeholders to ensure data availability, accuracy, and usability.
  • Owning data quality and reliability across the stack, from ingestion through to consumption.
  • Continuously improving pipeline performance, monitoring, and scalability.

Qualifications

  • Proven experience in data engineering, with strong knowledge of SQL, Python, and modern data stack tools (Fivetran, dbt, Snowflake or similar).
  • Experience building and maintaining large-scale ETL/ELT pipelines across heterogeneous sources (databases, analytics platforms, SaaS tools).
  • Strong understanding of data modeling, schema design, and transformation best practices.
  • Familiarity with data governance, monitoring, and quality assurance.
  • Comfort working cross-functionally with engineering, product, and operations teams.
  • Bonus: prior experience supporting machine learning workflows or analytics platforms.

Skills

Required:SQLPythondbtFivetranSnowflake or similar

Benefits

  • Bi-annual performance bonus structure
  • Generous equity grant vested over 4 years
  • Up to $15k Relocation bonus
  • $10K housing bonus (if you live within 0.5 miles of our office)
  • $1.5K monthly stipend for meals
  • Free Equinox membership
  • $200 monthly laundry reimbursement
  • $200 monthly personal wellness reimbursement
  • Health, Dental, Vision insurance
Last updated Sep 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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