239K–299K USD / year
Staff Software Engineer - Services Platform
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Published on 2026-10-09
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About this role
The role involves defining and building the services platform at Mercury, addressing authentication, deployment, and observability concerns while working with cross-functional teams. You'll be responsible for creating standards that improve service management and mentoring engineers to foster a strong infrastructure culture.
About the company
Mercury provides banking and financial software for startups, combining business accounts, cards, and money-management tools designed for venture-backed companies.
What you'll do
- Define and build the platform for deploying and operating services
- Own the strategy for the service ecosystem
- Create a paved deployment path with strong defaults
- Evolve service runtime architecture including Kubernetes usage
- Make observability self-service for product engineers
- Partner with Release Engineering and Security teams
- Implement pragmatic improvements in the services ecosystem
- Mentor engineers and influence infrastructure thinking
What we're looking for
- Deep experience operating Kubernetes in production
- Experience with service-to-service authentication and service discovery
- Building self-service observability or operational tooling
- Strong opinions about platform design
- Understanding of internal platforms as products
- Ability to gain alignment across teams
- Clear communication of technical tradeoffs
- Comfortable operating at the intersection of technical work and organizational leverage
Nice to have
- Experience building an internal developer platform
- Strong examples of systems built and adopted by teams