Kubernetes Expert - Fully Remote | Upto $90/hr

mercor

Remote · United StatesContractorPosted November 2, 2026

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Work style

Fully remote

Job type

Contractor

Open to

United States

Posted

November 2, 2026

Skills mentioned

TypeScriptPythonKubernetes

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About the role

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.

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