Software Engineer – Go

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Select tasks from a validated collection of Go repositories linked to specific git commits.

• Investigate repositories and associated PR or issue histories to gain insight into the subsystem.

• Reformulate engineering questions to effectively challenge coding agents while ensuring they remain clear and answerable.

• Modify rubrics and distractors to incentivize correct reasoning and eliminate plausible yet incorrect answers.

• Execute and refine the Studio validation loop: Check, Golden, Run, Analyze.

• Record work details in the task README.

• Submit tasks for expert evaluation and incorporate feedback from reviewers.

• Conduct work remotely and asynchronously within Mercor Studio.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 3 years of professional software engineering experience with significant production in Go.

• Proficiency in navigating extensive, unfamiliar Go codebases and articulating runtime behavior.

• Strong understanding of Go concurrency, interfaces, module boundaries, and the standard library.

• Competence in reading generated code and utilizing build tools.

• Relevant experience with distributed systems, networking, storage engines, or Kubernetes-related tools is highly desirable.

• Excellent command of written English.

• Familiarity with git at the commit level, containerized environments, and command-line tools.

• Completion of identity verification, background checks, signed Terms of Work and CIIAA, tax form, and passing a brief calibration quiz is necessary for onboarding and task access.

🏝️ Benefits

• Opportunity for remote work.

• Flexibility for asynchronous work.

• Compensation of $130 for each approved task.

• Expert evaluation provided for every task.

• Reasonable accommodations available upon request.

• Up to $250 referral bonus for each successful referral.