Infrastructure Engineer

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. As a Freelance Infrastructure Engineer, you will evaluate and compare the performance of AI-powered CLI coding agents on real-world infrastructure debugging tasks.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in software engineering with hands-on debugging of systems and infrastructure.
• Strong bash/shell scripting proficiency.
• Experience with Docker and containerization.
• Skills in infrastructure and systems debugging with PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, nginx, TLS, systemd, and log analysis.
• Familiarity with version control workflows (Git, PRs, issue tracking).
• Experience with AI coding tools like Copilot, Cursor, or Claude.

Benefits

• Remote work
• Flexible hours
• Short-term contract (1-2 weeks)

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