About The Job 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.

Position: DevOps / SRE / Cloud Engineer (Coding Agent Experience)

Type: Contract

Compensation: $85/hour

Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

Use frontier AI coding agents to complete and evaluate complex infrastructure engineering tasks.

Review model-generated implementations involving cloud platforms, Kubernetes, CI/CD systems, observability, and infrastructure automation.

Identify bugs, edge cases, reliability issues, and failure modes in model outputs.

Compare outputs from multiple frontier models to assess their strengths and weaknesses.





Apply qualified engineering judgment to realistic infrastructure engineering scenarios.

Must-Have

2+ years of professional DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Engineering experience.

Experience with AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, or observability tooling.

Regular use of AI coding agents such as Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Windsurf, Gemini CLI, or similar tools.

Ability to evaluate model-generated infrastructure and reliability engineering solutions.

Preferred

Experience supporting production-scale systems.

Compensation & Legal

$400 per accepted task

Compensation tied to accepted work.

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📌 Cloud Engineer - Fully Remote | Upto $85/hr (Toronto)
🏢 Mercor
📍 Toronto