Cloud Engineer - Fully Remote

Mercor; Lisboa; Remote; EUR 89,000 - 121,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking a Cloud Engineer for a fully remote role to work with frontier AI coding agents on infrastructure tasks. The position emphasizes evaluating model-generated infrastructure across cloud platforms, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tools.

The ideal candidate has 2+ years in DevOps/SRE/Cloud Engineering, with hands-on experience across AWS, Azure, GCP, and Terraform. This remote, international opportunity offers compensation per accepted task and collaboration with a

Qualifications

• 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.

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 professional engineering judgment to realistic infrastructure engineering scenarios.

Skills

DevOps

SRE

Cloud Engineering

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Observability tooling

Job description

Cloud Engineer - Fully Remote

Empresa : Mercor Tipo de Emprego : Periodo Integral Lisbon Lisbon District Portugal

Descrição do Emprego - Cloud Engineer - Fully Remote

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 professional engineering judgment to realistic infrastructure engineering scenarios.

Qualifications

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.

Resources & Support

• For details about the interview process and platform information, please check: https://talent.docs.mercor.com/welcome
• For any help or support, reach out to: [e-mail]

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