Mercor
Infrastructure Software Engineer
$160K–$500K
San Francisco · On-site · Full-time · Posted Sep 5, 2026
- Experience
- 2+ years of relevant industry experience.
- Education
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related technical degree such as Electrical Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Computer Engineering, Information Systems or Statistics.
About the job
Build and operate scalable infrastructure platforms, services, and tooling that support Mercor’s engineering teams and AI workloads.
What you'll do
- Design and build multi-tenant platforms and internal developer tooling for routing, capacity, deployments, and observability.
- Operate and scale databases, workflow systems, and Kubernetes; improve reliability through SLOs, incident fixes, and CI/CD.
- Develop self-service infrastructure, network and identity boundaries, and cost-management tools.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical degree.
- 2+ years of relevant industry experience.
- Strong software engineering skills, including writing and testing Python or Go.
- Production systems experience and familiarity with cloud infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code.
Nice to have
- Kubernetes experience.
- Experience building internal platforms or operating databases, message queues, or workflow engines at scale.
Pay
$160K – $500K USD total pay
Tools
Python, Go, AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Temporal, Postgres, MongoDB
AI focus
Build infrastructure for AI workloads and coding agents; use AI coding agents and help determine what infrastructure tasks to automate.
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