# Data Platform Engineer

**Company:** [Mercor](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/mercor)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Data Engineering
**Salary:** $130k – $500k/yr
**Skills:** Snowflake, Fivetran, Apache Airflow, Astronomer, Hex, SQL, Python, RBAC, Row-Level Security, Pii Masking, Cdc, Kafka, Debezium, Snowpipe Streaming, Data Governance
**Posted:** 2026-09-10

> Own the data platform infrastructure supporting Mercor’s data-driven teams, including Snowflake governance, access controls, ingestion, orchestration, dashboard governance, and cost management. The role requires strong Snowflake administration, SQL, Python, production pipeline ownership, and CDC/streaming experience.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Establish structure and ownership for data organization in Snowflake across projects and teams.
- Design role-based access controls and automate access provisioning and revocation.
- Extend row-access policies and PII masking across sensitive datasets.
- Migrate vendor and internal data sources into governed, properly owned environments.
- Own Fivetran connector health and costs.
- Own Airflow/Astronomer pipeline reliability and on-call operations.
- Govern Hex dashboards across the company.
- Monitor and right-size Snowflake warehouse spending.
- Build CDC/streaming ingestion and internal data-platform tooling.

## Requirements
- Hands-on Snowflake administration, including roles, grants, warehouses, and cost/performance tuning.
- Experience designing data access and governance models, including RBAC, row-level security, and PII controls, at scale.
- Experience owning vendor tooling end to end, such as Fivetran and Airflow/Astronomer, including on-call responsibilities.
- Track record migrating or re-architecting live production data systems without disrupting dependent teams.
- Strong SQL and Python skills, with infrastructure fluency.
- Experience owning production CDC/streaming pipelines, including delivery semantics, partitioning, and safe system cutovers.

## Benefits and Compensation
- Bi-annual performance bonus structure.
- Generous equity grant vested over four years.
- Up to $15,000 relocation bonus.
- $10,000 housing bonus for employees living within 0.5 miles of the office.
- $1,500 monthly meal stipend.
- Free Equinox membership.
- $200 monthly laundry reimbursement.
- $200 monthly personal wellness reimbursement.
- Health, dental, and vision insurance.

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