AWS Serverless & Infrastructure-as-Code Task Auditor Mercor · Remote — United States $70-90/hr →

Dorado; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Dorado seeks a qualified reviewer to evaluate AWS serverless architectures and IaC implementations for frontier AI model training tasks. You will scrutinize multi-service serverless designs, IAM boundaries, and cross-service integrations, delivering precise rubric-based feedback to improve reliability and cost-efficiency.

The role expects deep hands-on AWS serverless and IaC expertise, experience with local emulation tools, and the ability to communicate actionable findings to engineering teams.

Qualifications

• 3+ years hands-on experience building multi-service AWS serverless applications.
• Strong experience with infrastructure-as-code (CDK, CloudFormation, or SAM).
• Demonstrated ability to assess event-driven architecture correctness, IAM/permission boundaries, and failure/retry semantics.
• Familiarity with local emulation/testing fidelity (e.g., LocalStack) versus real AWS behavior.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate the quality, correctness, and cloud-architecture soundness of AWS serverless and IaC tasks.
• Assess multi-service serverless designs, IaC fidelity, and cross-service integration correctness.
• Provide rubric-based written feedback.
• Review IAM boundaries and failure/retry semantics.
• Compare local emulation with real AWS behavior and report gaps.

Skills

AWS serverless

Lambda

API Gateway

DynamoDB

DynamoDB Streams

S3

EventBridge

SNS/SQS

Step Functions

IaC

AWS CDK

CloudFormation

SAM

LocalStack

IAM permissions

Tools

LocalStack

AWS tooling (CDK/CFN/SAM)

Job description

Evaluate the quality, correctness, and cloud-architecture soundness of AWS serverless and infrastructure-as-code tasks used to train and evaluate a frontier AI lab's models. You'll assess multi-service serverless designs, IaC fidelity, and cross-service integration correctness — and provide clear, rubric-based written feedback.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years hands-on experience building multi-service AWS serverless applications (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB/Streams, S3, EventBridge, SNS/SQS, Step Functions)
• Strong experience with infrastructure-as-code (AWS CDK, CloudFormation, or SAM)
• Demonstrated ability to assess event-driven architecture correctness, IAM/permission boundaries, and failure/retry semantics
• Familiarity with local emulation/testing fidelity (e.g., LocalStack) versus real AWS behavior

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS certifications (Solutions Architect / Developer)
• Experience with observability and cost-optimization for serverless workloads
• Prior code-review or task-grading experience