Cloud Engineer - Fully Remote | Upto $85/hr

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 - AI interview based on your resume - Submit form Resources & Support - For details about the interview process and platform information, please check: - For any help or support, reach out to: PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity. Originally posted on Himalayas