SRE Specialist - Fully Remote

Company Introduction 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. Role Overview • Position: Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) – Full-Time, San Francisco • Commitment: 40 hours per week • As an SRE at Mercor, you’ll build and automate systems to keep our platform reliable, scalable, and fast. You will work across every layer of the stack to drive measurable reliability improvements. Responsibilities • Mentor engineers on best practices for observability, alert management, and instrumentation. • Lead incident response from triage through post-mortem and remediation. • Own and improve load-testing, disaster-recovery, and chaos-engineering programs. • Automate reliability checks, capacity planning, and service-level monitoring. • Partner with product and platform teams to design for reliability and scalability from the start. Requirements / Qualifications Must-Have Qualifications • Background in SRE • Proficiency in Terraform, Python, Go • Experience working with AWS Preferred Qualifications • Experience with RDBMS (MySQL) • Experience with document storage systems (MongoDB) • Experience with caching systems (Redis) • Exposure to data warehousing (Snowflake) • Previous work in a high-growth startup environment Engagement Details • Full-Time position • Location: San Francisco • Remote work flexibility • Competitive compensation 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: https://talent.docs.mercor.com/welcome/welcome • For any help or support, reach out to: support@mercor.com PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity. ,