Senior Infrastructure Engineer | Upto $80/hr

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. This freelance software engineer role involves evaluating and comparing the performance of AI-powered CLI coding agents on real-world infrastructure debugging tasks, with a strong focus on bash/shell scripting, Docker, and containerization. The ideal candidate has 3+ years of experience in software engineering, hands-on debugging of systems and infrastructure, and familiarity with version control workflows.

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)