infrastructure
Posted Dec 27, 2025Site Reliability Engineer
at Mercor
San Francisco, United StatesOn-site
Responsibilities
- Repair and improve how our production systems are structured so they are stable, resource-efficient, isolated, and well-observed.
- Introduce and champion modern SRE practices (e.g., incident response, postmortems, SLIs/SLOs) across engineering teams.
- Collaborate with leverage engineering and applied AI teams to ensure sustainable growth.
- Represent SRE best practices internally and help teams onboard onto production in a way that is safe, scalable, and consistent with SRE principles.
Requirements
- ABOUT MERCOR Mercor's mission is to organize human intelligence to power the AI economy.
- We partner with leading AI labs and enterprises to provide the human intelligence essential to AI development.
- Our vast talent network trains frontier AI models in the same way teachers teach students: by sharing knowledge, experience, and context that can't be captured in code alone.
- Mercor is creating a new category of work where expertise powers AI advancement.
- You’ll work alongside researchers, operators, and AI companies at the forefront of shaping the systems that are redefining society.
- Experience doing true SRE work (not just operations) across multiple roles or companies.
- Deep familiarity with SRE practices as popularized by Google (e.g., error budgets, reliability vs. risk trade-offs, large-scale distributed systems). 5+ years of SRE experience; 15+ years of overall
- Proven success operating systems at scale, with a strong understanding of the challenges of large, distributed production environments.
- Experience as a founding SRE or early SRE hire, standing up SRE practices and orgs from scratch. Hands-on
- experience in the AWS ecosystem, Kubernetes, and modern IaC tooling (Terraform, Spacelift, etc.).
Benefits
- Today, more than 30,000 experts in our network collectively earn over $2 million a day.
- Mercor is a profitable Series C company valued at $10 billion.
- Benefits - Bi-annual performance bonus structure - Generous equity grant vested over 4 years - Up to $15k Relocation bonus - $10K housing bonus (if you live within 0.5 miles of our office) - $1.5K monthly stipend for meals - Free Equinox membership - $200 monthly laundry reimbursement - $200 monthly personal wellness reimbursement - Health, Dental, Vision insurance