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MercorMercorSan Francisco, CA

Infrastructure Engineer

Builds and scales highly available infrastructure using AWS, Terraform, and Docker to support rapid growth and AI workloads. Collaborates with product and research teams on architectures, CI/CD, monitoring, and performance optimization.

130k – 500k
On-siteDevOps / SRE

About the role

What You’ll Work On

  • Designing and maintaining core infrastructure across cloud environments.
  • Building Infrastructure-as-Code workflows to automate deployments and scaling.
  • Improving monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to maintain reliability.
  • Managing CI/CD pipelines (Github, Spacelift) to ensure seamless deployments.
  • Supporting disaster recovery planning and ensuring high availability of systems.
  • Partnering with product and research teams to design architectures that scale with workload demands.
  • Identifying and fixing performance bottlenecks in compute, storage, and networking.

What We’re Looking For

  • Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS).
  • Proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code tools (Terraform).
  • Deep experience with containers and orchestration (Docker).
  • Solid understanding of distributed architectures.
  • Programming languages (Python, Go).
  • Proven ability to ship reliable infrastructure in production environments.
  • Growth mindset and eagerness to thrive in a hyper-growth, high-ownership environment.

Benefits

  • Generous equity grant vested over 4 years
  • A $20K relocation bonus (if moving to the Bay Area)
  • A $10K housing bonus (if you live within 0.5 miles of our office)
  • A $1K monthly stipend for meals
  • Free Equinox membership
  • Health insurance

Skills

AWSTerraformDockerPythonGoKubernetesCI/CDGitHubSpaceliftInfrastructure As Code

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