Infrastructure Code Specialist - Fully Remote | Upto $90/hr

mercor; United States; Remote; USD 96,000 - 124,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor, headquartered in San Francisco, seeks a contract AWS Serverless & Infrastructure-as-Code Task Auditor to evaluate serverless implementations and IaC fidelity. This remote role focuses on auditing multi-service designs, adherence to IAM boundaries, and robust feedback for model training.

The ideal candidate has 3+ years with AWS serverless stacks and IaC tools, plus familiarity with LocalStack for testing and emulation. Remote collaboration and rubric-based assessments are essential.

Qualifications

• 3+ years hands-on experience with 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).
• Ability to assess event-driven architecture correctness.
• Familiarity with local emulation/testing fidelity (e.g., LocalStack).

Responsibilities

• Evaluate the quality and correctness of AWS serverless and infrastructure-as-code tasks.
• Assess multi-service serverless designs, IaC fidelity, and cross-service integration correctness.
• Provide clear, rubric-based written feedback to improve AI model training.
• Review event-driven architecture for correctness, including IAM/permission boundaries and failure/retry semantics.
• Collaborate asynchronously to enhance cloud-architecture soundness.

Skills

AWS serverless

Event-driven design

Code review

LocalStack testing

Tools

AWS CDK

CloudFormation

SAM

LocalStack

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: AWS Serverless & Infrastructure-as-Code Task Auditor Type: Contract Compensation: $70–$90/hour Location: Remote

Responsibilities

• Evaluate the quality and correctness of AWS serverless and infrastructure-as-code tasks.
• Assess multi-service serverless designs , IaC fidelity , and cross-service integration correctness.
• Provide clear, rubric-based written feedback to improve AI model training .
• Review event-driven architecture for correctness, including IAM/permission boundaries and failure/retry semantics.
• Collaborate asynchronously to enhance cloud-architecture soundness .

Qualifications

Must-Have

• 3+ years hands-on experience with 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 ).
• Ability to assess event-driven architecture correctness.
• Familiarity with local emulation/testing fidelity (e.g., LocalStack ).

Preferred

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

Originally posted on Himalayas