Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Company Introduction

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.

Role Overview

Position: Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) – Full-Time, San Francisco
Commitment: 40 hours per week
As an SRE at Mercor, you’ll build and automate systems to keep our platform reliable, scalable, and fast. You will work across every layer of the stack to drive measurable reliability improvements.

Responsibilities

• Mentor engineers on best practices for observability, alert management, and instrumentation.
• Lead incident response from triage through post-mortem and remediation.
• Own and improve load-testing, disaster-recovery, and chaos-engineering programs.
• Automate reliability checks, capacity planning, and service-level monitoring.
• Partner with product and platform teams to design for reliability and scalability from the start.

Requirements / Qualifications

Must-Have Qualifications

• Background in SRE
• Proficiency in Terraform, Python, Go
• Experience working with AWS

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with RDBMS (MySQL)
• Experience with document storage systems (MongoDB)
• Experience with caching systems (Redis)
• Exposure to data warehousing (Snowflake)
• Previous work in a high-growth startup environment

Engagement Details

Full-Time position
Location: San Francisco
Remote work flexibility
Competitive compensation

Application Process (Takes 20-30 mins to complete)

1. Upload resume
2. AI interview based on your resume
3. Submit form

Resources & Support

For details about the interview process and platform information, please check: https://talent.docs.mercor.com/welcome/welcome
For any help or support, reach out to: [email protected]

PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity.