Data Platform Engineer

Mercors mission is to organize human intelligence to power the AI economy. Were a leading AI data company building the layer between human expertise and frontier models. Millions of domain experts on the platform are paid over $4 million per day to train frontier AI models. Mercors APEX benchmark family measures AIs real-world impact on professional work. Mercor Enterprise brings this same infrastructure to Fortune 500 companies: helping companies capture how their best people actually work translating that expertise directly back into agents.

Mercor is creating a new category of work where expertise powers AI advancement. Achieving this requires an ambitious fast-paced and deeply committed team. Youll work alongside researchers operators and AI companies at the forefront of shaping the systems that are redefining society. Mercor is a profitable Series C company valued at $10 billion. We work in-person five days a week in our San Francisco NYC or London offices.

What This Person Owns

The infrastructure every data-driven team at Mercor runs on: Snowflake Fivetran Airflow and Hex. You own how data is organized who can access what what it costs to run and how reliably it operates. This is a foundational hire on a new Data Platform team youll help set the standards other engineers build against.

What They Do Day-to-Day

- 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

What Were Looking For

- 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.

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

Required Experience:

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