Infrastructure Engineer

Mercor Alabaster

$120K — $150K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 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
  • Familiarity with 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

  • Design and maintain core infrastructure across cloud environments
  • Build Infrastructure-as-Code workflows to automate deployments and scaling
  • Improve monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to maintain reliability
  • Manage CI/CD pipelines (Github, Spacelift) for seamless deployments
  • Support disaster recovery planning and ensure high availability of systems
  • Partner with product and research teams to design scalable architectures
  • Identify and fix performance bottlenecks in compute, storage, and networking

Benefits

  • Bi-annual performance bonus structure
  • Generous equity grant vested over 4 years
  • Up to $15k relocation bonus
  • $10K housing bonus for living within 0.5 miles of the office
  • $1.5K monthly stipend for meals
  • Free Equinox membership
  • $200 monthly laundry reimbursement
  • $200 monthly personal wellness reimbursement
  • Health, Dental, Vision insurance
Full Job Description
About the Role

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.

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.

Why Mercor
  • Impact: Your work powers how the world's leading AI labs train and test their models.
  • Learning: Get early insights into frontier model capabilities months before the market.
  • Growth: Work on both infrastructure and research-adjacent projects with fast paths to ownership.

Benefits
  • Bi-annual performance bonus structure
  • Generous equity grant vested over 4 years
  • Up to $15k Relocation bonus
  • $10K housing bonus (if you live within 0.5 miles of our office)
  • $1.5K monthly stipend for meals
  • Free Equinox membership
  • $200 monthly laundry reimbursement
  • $200 monthly personal wellness reimbursement
  • Health, Dental, Vision insurance

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