Mercor
Security Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure
San Francisco or NYC
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 98 days ago
SnowflakeAWSCloud PlatformsKubernetesTerraformSite Reliability EngineeringLLMsCybersecurityNetwork SecurityIncident ResponseCompliance
About the role
- Mercor's APEX benchmark family measures AI's real-world impact on professional work.
- Mercor Enterprise brings this same infrastructure to Fortune 500 companies: helping companies capture how their best people actually work, translating that expertise directly back into agents.
Requirements
- Deep AWS security expertise - you've architected multi-account strategies, written SCPs, and hardened production environments
- Experience with Kubernetes security in production - not just tutorials, you've secured real clusters running real workloads
- Experience with CSPM/CNAPP platforms (Wiz, Prisma Cloud, or similar) - deploying, tuning, and driving remediation
- 5+ years of professional experience in cloud security, infrastructure security, or platform/SRE engineering with a strong security focus
- Experience with Snowflake security - schema-level isolation, access controls, data sharing governance
- Familiarity with container runtime security (Falco, SentinelOne Cloud Workload Protection, or similar)
Skills
- helping companies capture how their best people actually work, translating that expertise directly back into agents.
- Mercor is creating a new category of work where expertise powers AI advancement.
- Mercor is a profitable Series C company valued at $10 billion.
Compensation
- Bi-annual performance bonus structure
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
- $200 monthly laundry reimbursement
- $200 monthly personal wellness reimbursement
- Health, Dental, Vision insurance
Company info
- Mercor's mission is to organize human intelligence to power the AI economy.
- We're a leading AI data company, building the layer between human expertise and frontier models.
- Millions of domain experts on the platform are paid over $4 million per day to train frontier AI models.
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