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Mercor

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 – 500kSan Francisco, CADevOps / SREOnsite
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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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