# Infrastructure Engineer

**Company:** [Mercor](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/mercor)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $130k – $500k/yr
**Skills:** AWS, Terraform, Docker, Python, Go, Kubernetes, CI/CD, GitHub, Spacelift, Infrastructure As Code
**Posted:** 2025-09-18

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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

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