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Software Engineer, Frontier Data Products

Mercor· Engineering
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San Francisco$160k - $500kFull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Backend-focused role building production orchestration systems for multi-stage data/workflow pipelines between customer requests, automated processing, and expert review in frontier AI data products.

Responsibilities

  • Design services and state models for multi-stage workflows that fan out across automated processing and expert reviewers, then reconcile results into a coherent whole
  • Build orchestration primitives — retries, failure recovery, idempotency, auditable state transitions — for jobs that run far longer than a request and can be partially redone after the fact
  • Integrate model inference into production workflows without sacrificing debuggability or human oversight
  • Build the APIs and tooling that let product, operations, and ML teams operate, debug, and trust these systems at scale
  • Own reliability and observability for workflows where a silent failure means a corrupted result, not just a 500

Qualifications

  • Production backend experience with strong opinions about what ages well and why
  • Sharp instincts for system design, service boundaries, and where to put complexity — and where to refuse it
  • Fluency with the distributed systems toolkit: async workflows, queues, idempotency, retries, and long-running jobs as practice, not resume line items
  • Ability to take ambiguous product, operational, and ML constraints and turn them into a system that is clean and debuggable
  • Comfort working in Python on AWS with Postgres; experience with Temporal or similar workflow engines is a plus

Skills

Required:Production backend developmentDistributed systemsSystem designPython

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 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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