[Hiring] Kubernetes Auditor @Mercor

Role Description

The Kubernetes Task Auditor will:

• Evaluate the quality and correctness of Kubernetes tasks for training and evaluating AI models.
• Assess cluster-operations scenarios and manifest correctness.
• Troubleshoot failure modes and provide clear, rubric-based feedback.
• Review and improve AI model performance by ensuring production-readiness of tasks.
• Work independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines.

Qualifications

• Must-Have:
• 3+ years hands-on production Kubernetes experience (EKS/GKE/AKS or self-managed).
• Deep understanding of cluster internals: CNI/DNS/ingress, PV/PVC storage, RBAC, and failure modes (CrashLoopBackOff, OOMKilled, scheduling/eviction).
• Experience authoring and reviewing manifests / Helm charts and debugging live cluster incidents.
• Proficiency in Go, Python, or TypeScript.
• Preferred:
• CKA / CKAD certification.
• Service-mesh, autoscaling, and observability experience (Istio, HPA, Prometheus/Grafana).
• Prior SRE / platform-engineering or task-grading experience.

Company Description

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
• Jack Dorsey