Cloud Engineer - Fully Remote | Upto $85/hr

mercor; Portugal; Remote; EUR 86,000 - 123,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking a DevOps/SRE/Cloud Engineer (Coding Agent Experience) for a remote contract role. You will work with frontier AI coding agents to tackle complex infrastructure tasks across cloud platforms and Kubernetes, with a focus on reliability and observability.

You will review model-generated infrastructure outputs, identify bugs and edge cases, and compare model performances to guide engineering decisions. Strong experience with cloud tooling and CI/CD is essential.

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

AI coding agents

Observability

CI/CD

Terraform

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD tooling

Observability tooling

Job description

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.

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

• Upload resume
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