Go Engineer - Codebase Expert

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: Software Engineer, Go — Codebase Q&A
Type: Contract
Compensation: $130/hour
Location: Remote
Role Responsibilities

- Select tasks from a pre-validated pool of Go repositories, each pinned to a specific git commit and arriving with an engineering question, positive and negative rubrics, foils, and a golden solution.

- Explore the repository until you genuinely understand the subsystem in question, including the relevant PR or issue history.

- Rewrite the task's question to challenge frontier coding agents while ensuring it remains well-defined and fairly answerable.

- Adjust rubrics and foils to reward correct reasoning and reject plausible-but-wrong answers.

- Run the full validation loop in Studio — Check, Golden, Run, Analyze — and iterate until every stage passes.

- Document your work in the task README and submit for expert review, addressing reviewer feedback on returned tasks.

Qualifications

Must-Have

- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience with substantial production Go .

- Ability to navigate a large, unfamiliar Go codebase and explain runtime behavior.

- Fluency in Go concurrency, interfaces, module boundaries, and the standard library.

- Precise written English for crafting questions and rubrics.

- Comfortable with git at commit level, containerized environments, and command-line tooling.

Preferred
- Experience with distributed systems, networking, storage engines, or Kubernetes -ecosystem tooling.

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

- Submit your resume or relevant technical background to get started.

- Qualified applicants may be asked to complete a brief technical assessment or provide additional information.

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