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Mercor is an AI data company on a mission to organize human intelligence to power the AI economy. The company operates a platform where millions of domain experts train frontier AI models, and has built the APEX benchmark family to measure AI's real-world impact on professional work. Mercor Enterprise extends this infrastructure to Fortune 500 companies. The company is a profitable Series C venture valued at $10 billion, with offices in San Francisco, NYC, and London.
As an Infrastructure Engineer, you will build and scale the systems powering Mercor's rapid growth. You'll ensure infrastructure is highly available, cost-effective, and capable of handling explosive traffic and compute demands. You will work closely with engineers across product, research, and operations to design scalable architectures, streamline deployments, and improve observability.
Key responsibilities include:
- 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
Mercor is hiring broadly across Infrastructure roles including Developer Productivity Engineer, Database Engineer, and Platform Engineer. Candidates will be team-matched after the first screen.
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
