Software Engineer | $100K/year Remote | Mercor
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Organization: Mercor
Position: Data Engineer
Referral Partner:Crossing Hurdles
Type: Full-time Position
Compensation: $20,000–$100,000/year
Location: Remote
Duration: Permanent
Role Responsibilities(Training support will be provided)
- Build robust data pipelines to ingest, transform, and consolidate data from diverse sources including MongoDB, Airtable, PostHog, and production databases
- Design dbt models and transformations to unify disparate data tables into clean, production-ready schemas
- Implement scalable, fault-tolerant workflows using Fivetran, dbt, SQL, and Python
- Collaborate with engineers, data scientists, and business stakeholders to ensure data availability, accuracy, and usability
- Own data quality and reliability across the entire data stack from ingestion to consumption
- Continuously improve pipeline performance, monitoring, and scalability
Requirements
- Proven experience in data engineering with strong proficiency in SQL and Python
- Experience using modern data stack tools like Fivetran, dbt, Snowflake, or similar platforms
- Skilled in building and maintaining large-scale ETL/ELT pipelines across heterogeneous data sources and platforms
- Strong understanding of data modeling, schema design, and transformation best practices
- Familiarity with data governance, monitoring, and quality assurance tools and processes
- Ability to work effectively across engineering, product, and operations teams
- Bonus: prior experience supporting machine learning workflows or analytics platforms
- Access to a desktop or laptop computer (Chromebooks are not supported)
Application Process(15 min)
- Upload resume
- Participate in AI interview (10 min)
- Submit form