Summary
✨ AI‑Generated
A remote AI-focused organization is seeking a DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Engineer to evaluate complex infrastructure tasks completed with advanced AI coding agents. You will review implementations across cloud platforms, Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability, and infrastructure automation, identify reliability issues and edge cases, compare model outputs, and apply professional engineering judgment independently.
Highlights
Fully remote contract work with flexible asynchronous execution, exposure to frontier AI coding agents, and opportunities to evaluate sophisticated infrastructure engineering solutions across cloud, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and observability.
Description
About The Job
Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs.
Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark, General Catalyst, Peter Thiel, Adam D'Angelo, Larry Summers, and Jack Dorsey.
Position: DevOps / SRE / Cloud Engineer (Coding Agent Experience)
Type: Contract
Compensation: $85/hour
Location: Remote
Role Responsibilities
Use frontier AI coding agents to complete and evaluate complex infrastructure engineering tasks.Review model-generated implementations involving cloud platforms, Kubernetes, CI/CD systems, observability, and infrastructure automation.Identify bugs, edge cases, reliability issues, and failure modes.Compare outputs from multiple frontier models and assess their strengths and weaknesses.Apply professional engineering judgment to realistic infrastructure engineering scenarios.Work independently and asynchronously to meet sprint-based project deadlines.
Qualifications
Must-Have
2+ years of professional DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Engineering experience.Experience with AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, or observability tooling.Regular use of AI coding agents such as Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Windsurf, Gemini CLI, or similar tools.Ability to evaluate model-generated infrastructure and reliability engineering solutions.
Preferred
Experience supporting production-scale systems.
Compensation & Legal
$400 per accepted task.Compensation is tied to accepted work.
Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)
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Resources & Support
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