Infrastructure Software Engineer
Mercor · San Francisco
CHECKED 9M AGO
Applied AIonsite$160k–$500k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build and scale core systems powering rapid growth and explosive traffic demands.
- Partner with product and research to design architectures that scale with workloads.
- Improve monitoring and disaster recovery to keep systems highly available.
What they offer
- Bi-annual performance bonus structure
- Generous equity grant vested over 4 years
- Up to $15k relocation bonus
- $10K housing bonus if within 0.5 miles of office
- $1.5K monthly stipend for meals
- Free Equinox membership
- $200 monthly laundry reimbursement
- $200 monthly personal wellness reimbursement
- Health, Dental, Vision insurance
Ideal candidate
A high-ownership builder who thrives in hyper-growth environments and loves scaling reliable systems alongside product and research teams to power frontier AI.
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 experience in Python and Go
- Proven ability to ship reliable infrastructure in production
- Growth mindset to thrive in hyper-growth, high-ownership environment
- remote policy
- In-person 5 days a week
- hiring process
- First screen followed by team matching across Developer Productivity, Database, or Platform
Lab profile
About Mercor
AI data company organizing human expertise to train frontier models for the AI economy.
What they build
- APEX benchmark family
- Mercor Enterprise
- Human expertise training data platform
Known for
- Massive domain-expert network
- Frontier model training infrastructure
- Real-world professional work evaluation
Key facts
- Millions of domain experts on platform
- Pays over $4M per day to experts