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Kubernetes Task Auditor
Location: RemoteEligible locations: United StatesContract type: ContractSalary: $70 – $90Posted: October 8, 2026
About the Role
Experienced Kubernetes engineers are needed to review the quality, correctness and production-readiness of tasks used to train and evaluate a frontier AI lab's models.
What You'll Do
- Assess cluster-operations scenarios for realism and correctness
- Check manifests and Helm charts for correctness
- Review failure-mode troubleshooting tasks
- Provide clear, rubric-based written feedback
Requirements
- 3+ years of hands-on production Kubernetes (EKS, GKE, AKS or self-managed)
- Deep knowledge of cluster internals: CNI, DNS, ingress, PV/PVC storage, RBAC, and failure modes (CrashLoopBackOff, OOMKilled, scheduling and eviction)
- Experience authoring and reviewing manifests or Helm charts and debugging live incidents
- Proficiency in Go, Python or TypeScript
- Preferred: CKA or CKAD; service mesh, autoscaling and observability (Istio, HPA, Prometheus, Grafana); SRE, platform engineering or task-grading experience
Compensation & Logistics
- Pay: $70-$90 per hour
- Commitment: about 40 hours per week
- Remote, United States only
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