Mercor.io Corporation

Data Platform Engineer

Mercor.io Corporation · San Francisco, CA
San Francisco, CA $160K–$500K Posted 2026-09-10
Salary
$160K–$500K
Type
Full-time
Experience
4+ yr

ABOUT MERCOR

Mercor's mission is to organize human intelligence to power the AI economy. We're 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. Mercor's APEX benchmark family measures AI's 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. You’ll 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, you'll 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 We're 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
SnowflakeAirflowPythonKafka
$110K — 10th pctl $265K — 90th pctl
This role’s midpoint $330K vs. market median $180K for Engineering roles
+85%
above median
Based on 24,000+ Engineering roles with disclosed salary ranges tracked on NewJob.
Mercor

Mercor

AI · Series C · San Francisco, USA

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Series C · $10B
Key Investors
Felicis, Benchmark, General Catalyst
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