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Data Platform Engineer

Mercor· Engineering
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San Francisco$160k - $500kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Foundational data platform role focused on Snowflake, data governance, and data flow tooling to support Mercor’s data-driven teams.

Responsibilities

  • Bring structure and clear ownership to how data is organized in Snowflake across projects and teams
  • Design narrow, role-based access controls, and partner with automation so access is granted and revoked as people join, change teams, or leave
  • Extend row access policies and PII masking across all sensitive datasets
  • Migrate data from a variety of vendor and internal sources into properly owned, governed homes
  • Own Fivetran connector health and cost, Airflow/Astronomer pipeline reliability and on-call, and Hex governance across company-wide dashboards
  • Monitor and right-size Snowflake warehouse spend
  • Help build CDC/streaming ingestion and other internal data platform tooling

Qualifications

  • 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
  • Track record migrating or re-architecting live production data systems without breaking dependent teams
  • Strong SQL and Python, with infrastructure fluency to make judgment calls, not just execute a spec
  • Experience owning CDC/streaming pipelines in production (Debezium, Kafka, Snowpipe Streaming or similar), including reasoning about delivery semantics, partitioning, and safe cutovers between systems.

Skills

Required:Snowflake administrationData governance and RBACVendor tooling ownershipData migration / re-architectureSQL and PythonCDC/streaming pipelines

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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