Database Engineer - Fully Remote · Up to $2200/task

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: Database Systems Evaluation Expert
• Type: Contract
• Compensation: $2200 per task
• Location: Remote

Responsibilities

• Design challenging, self-contained database engineering tasks .
• Build checks for correctness , failure handling , concurrency , retries , and regressions .
• Evaluate performance measures such as latency , throughput , and memory use .
• Write clear grading criteria for engineering judgment .
• Collaborate with technical reviewers to refine and validate tasks.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands‑on database-engine internals experience or a database-systems PhD .
• Deep experience with storage engines , query execution , optimization , transactions , replication , or related low‑latency systems.
• Strong implementation skills and clear explanations of correctness and performance tradeoffs.

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

• Complete a self‑paced technical assessment with recorded verbal responses and a coding exercise.
• Use a laptop or desktop with a camera, microphone, and entire-screen sharing.
• Have your own editor and terminal ready, along with Python 3.8+ and a compiler for C , C++ , Rust , Go , or Java .
• The assessment includes a starter kit and public tests.
• Complete the assessment independently, without outside AI assistance.

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