Software Engineer - Data Infrastructure

The role

This person will own the infrastructure including Snowflake, Fivetran, Airflow, and Hex. They will manage data organization, access controls, costs, and reliability for the Data Infrastructure team.

What you will do

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

Required 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
• Experience owning CDC/streaming pipelines in production (Debezium, Kafka, Snowpipe Streaming or similar)

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

About the company

Mercor builds infrastructure that enables frontier AI labs and enterprises to train, evaluate, and improve AI on real-world professional work. The company is profitable and recently raised a $750 million Series D at a $20 billion valuation.