Infrastructure Platform Engineer — AWS, Terraform & AI-Ready

Neolife Updates; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercury in New York, NY seeks a Software Engineer - Infrastructure to deepen the infrastructure platform for the engineering org. You will expand capabilities to support AI-enabled workflows while keeping human usability and security top of mind.

The role emphasizes writing RFCs, designing scalable infrastructure, and owning broad areas from networking to container orchestration. Ideal candidates have 2+ years of AWS experience, strong Linux fundamentals, and proven technical writing ability.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of AWS experience with EC2, RDS, OpenSearch, ECS, and EKS.
• Strong Linux fundamentals including file systems, containers, and OS concepts.
• 2+ years of technical writing producing RFCs and tech specs.
• Passion for cloud-native open source technologies and code contributions.

Responsibilities

• Platform expansion to build AI-friendly but human-usable infrastructure.
• Define infrastructure strategy via RFCs and technical specs.
• Develop agentic infrastructure with guardrails for agents and humans.
• Own networking to container orchestration and support AWS needs with product teams.

Skills

AWS experience

Linux fundamentals

Technical writing

Open source contribution

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenSearch

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Mercury in New York, NY seeks a Software Engineer - Infrastructure to deepen the infrastructure platform for the engineering org. You will expand capabilities to support AI-enabled workflows while keeping human usability and security top of mind.

The role emphasizes writing RFCs, designing scalable infrastructure, and owning broad areas from networking to container orchestration. Ideal candidates have 2+ years of AWS experience, strong Linux fundamentals, and proven technical writing ability.