Infrastructure Engineer

Mercor•San Francisco, CA

69d•$130,000 - $500,000•Onsite

About The Position

As an Infrastructure Engineer at Mercor, you’ll build and scale the systems that power our rapid growth. You’ll ensure our infrastructure is highly available, cost-effective, and able to handle explosive traffic and compute demands. You’ll work closely with engineers across product, research, and operations to design scalable architectures, streamline deployments, and improve observability. We’re hiring broadly across Infrastructure: Developer Productivity Engineer and Database Engineer and Platform Engineer. Candidates will be team-matched after the first screen, so we encourage you to apply even if your experience is stronger in one area than another.

Requirements

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.

Responsibilities

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.