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# Data Engineer - Fully Remote

- **Company:** Mercor
- **Location:** Berlin, Germany (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** €166,400.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Business Analytics Applications, Big Data, Information Engineering, Data Infrastructure, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Data Warehousing, Cursor (Graphical User Interface Elements), Distributed Data Store
- **Published:** September 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.de/details/5872935652

## About the Role

Must-Have

 * 2+ years of professional data engineering experience.
 * Experience building ETL pipelines, data warehouses, analytics platforms, or distributed data systems.
 * Regular use of AI coding agents such as Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Windsurf, Gemini CLI, or similar tools.
 * Ability to evaluate model-generated data infrastructure and pipeline implementations.

Preferred

 * Experience operating large-scale data platforms.

Compensation & Legal

 * $400 per accepted task.
 * Compensation is tied to accepted work.

## Description

* Use frontier AI coding agents to complete and evaluate complex data engineering tasks.
 * Review model-generated implementations involving ETL pipelines, data warehouses, analytics platforms, and distributed data systems.
 * Identify bugs, edge cases, scalability issues, and failure modes in model outputs.
 * Compare outputs from multiple frontier models and assess their strengths and weaknesses.
 * Apply professional engineering judgment to realistic data engineering scenarios.


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