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 Infrastructure 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
Generous equity grant vested over 4 years
Health, dental, and vision insurance
401(k) with company match
Unlimited paid vacation and sick days
Parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents
Free mental health services
$200 monthly wellness reimbursement
$1.5K monthly meal stipend
$200 monthly laundry reimbursement
Free Equinox membership
Up to $15K relocation bonus
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