Kubernetes Auditor - Cluster Specialist

About the job

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, and Jack Dorsey.

Position: Kubernetes Task Auditor
Type:Contract
Compensation:$70–$90/hour
Location:Remote

Role Responsibilities

• 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.

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

• Upload resume
• AI interview based on your resume
• Submit form

Resources & Support

• For details about the interview process and platform information, please check: https://talent.docs.mercor.com/welcome
• For any help or support, reach out to: support@mercor.com

PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity.