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)