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Data Platform Engineer roles qualify for E-3 visa sponsorship as specialty occupations requiring a bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or a related field. The E-3 has no lottery, no annual cap backlog, and renews in two-year increments, making it a stable path for Australian engineers moving into U.S. data infrastructure roles.
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Mercor's mission is to organize human intelligence to power the AI economy. We're a leading AI data company, building the layer between human expertise and frontier models. Millions of domain experts on the platform are paid over $4 million per day to train frontier AI models. Mercor's APEX benchmark family measures AI's real-world impact on professional work. Mercor Enterprise brings this same infrastructure to Fortune 500 companies: helping companies capture how their best people actually work, translating that expertise directly back into agents.
Mercor is creating a new category of work where expertise powers AI advancement. Achieving this requires an ambitious, fast-paced and deeply committed team. You’ll work alongside researchers, operators, and AI companies at the forefront of shaping the systems that are redefining society. Mercor is a profitable Series C company valued at $10 billion. We work in-person five days a week in our San Francisco, NYC, or London offices.
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 Platform 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
- 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
Compensation Range: $130K - $500K
About Mercor
Mercor's mission is to organize human intelligence to power the AI economy. We're a leading AI data company, building the layer between human expertise and frontier models. Millions of domain experts on the platform are paid over $4 million per day to train frontier AI models. Mercor's APEX benchmark family measures AI's real-world impact on professional work. Mercor Enterprise brings this same infrastructure to Fortune 500 companies: helping companies capture how their best people actually work, translating that expertise directly back into agents.
Mercor is creating a new category of work where expertise powers AI advancement. Achieving this requires an ambitious, fast-paced and deeply committed team. You’ll work alongside researchers, operators, and AI companies at the forefront of shaping the systems that are redefining society. Mercor is a profitable Series C company valued at $10 billion. We work in-person five days a week in our San Francisco, NYC, or London offices.
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 Platform 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
- 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
Compensation Range: $130K - $500K
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding E-3 Visa Sponsorship as a Data Platform Engineer
Frame your degree for U.S. specialty occupation
Australian three-year bachelor's degrees are generally accepted as equivalent to U.S. four-year degrees for E-3 visa purposes, but your transcript must show a technical major. A credential evaluation letter from a NACES-approved evaluator removes this uncertainty before you apply.
Target employers with active DOL LCA history
Search the DOL's Office of Foreign Labor Certification disclosure data for employers who have filed LCAs for data engineering or platform roles. Prior filings signal a company already understands the E-3 process and won't need to be educated from scratch.
Distinguish data platform from data science in outreach
Recruiters sometimes conflate data platform, data science, and analytics roles. In your resume and cover letter, emphasise infrastructure keywords like Spark, Kafka, dbt, and cloud data warehouses so your application routes to engineering hiring managers who understand E-3 specialty occupation requirements.
Clarify LCA filing timing with your offer letter
The employer must file the LCA with DOL before you can attend your consulate interview. Get written confirmation of the intended start date and ensure both parties understand the LCA must clear first. Misaligned timelines are the most common cause of delayed E-3 start dates.
Use Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service for LCA and consulate prep
Once you have an offer, use Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service to handle your LCA and visa paperwork end-to-end. This removes the coordination burden from your employer and reduces the risk of errors that trigger USCIS requests for evidence.
Confirm E-Verify enrollment before signing
Some data platform roles sit inside STEM-designated positions at companies enrolled in E-Verify. Confirm enrollment before signing your offer, as E-Verify status affects your I-9 options and can matter if you later explore STEM OPT-based transitions or internal transfers.
E-3 Visa Data Platform Engineer: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I find Data Platform Engineer jobs with E-3 sponsorship?
Search Migrate Mate to filter Data Platform Engineer roles by employers who sponsor E-3 visas. Because the E-3 requires a qualifying job offer before you can file, targeting companies with prior LCA filing history for data engineering roles saves time. Migrate Mate surfaces those employers directly so you're not cold-applying to companies unfamiliar with the process.
How much does it cost to get an E-3 visa?
Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service covers the entire process for $499, including the Labor Condition Application, visa document preparation, and consulate appointment guidance. Traditional immigration lawyers charge $2,000–$5,000+ for the same work. The E-3 has less paperwork than most work visas, so paying thousands for legal help is usually unnecessary.
Does a Data Platform Engineer role qualify as an E-3 specialty occupation?
Yes, provided the position requires a bachelor's degree or higher in a directly related field such as computer science, software engineering, or information systems. Roles that list a degree as preferred rather than required can create complications at the consulate, so it's worth confirming the job description uses mandatory degree language before the LCA is filed.
How does the E-3 compare to the H-1B for Data Platform Engineers?
The E-3 has a 10,500-per-year allocation that has never been fully used, meaning there is no lottery and no multi-year wait. The H-1B visa has an 85,000 annual cap with a highly competitive registration lottery. For Australian data engineers, the E-3 offers a predictable, repeatable path that can be initiated as soon as you have a qualifying offer.
Can I change employers or projects on an E-3 while working as a Data Platform Engineer?
You can change employers, but your new employer must file a fresh LCA with DOL and you'll need a new E-3 visa stamp if yours lists the previous employer. Internal transfers to a different legal entity within the same corporate group also require a new LCA. Plan for at least a few weeks of processing time before the transition is fully compliant.