Platform Engineer, Infrastructure – AI‑Ready Cloud

Mercury; Portland (OR); On-site; USD 122,000 - 158,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercury is assembling a robust Infrastructure Platform to scale the Engineering Organization, delivering reliable, secure foundations for services and teams to build on. This role emphasizes maintainable systems, quality, and deep problem-solving across Linux, containers, and cloud-native tooling.

You will contribute to a platform that enables AI-enabled workflows while remaining accessible for engineers, setting standards with RFCs and technical specifications.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience with AWS.
• Interest in cloud native open source technologies, and contributing upstream to these technologies.
• Strong knowledge of low-level operating system foundations (Linux, file systems, containers).
• Proven ability in technical writing, with at least 2 years of experience creating detailed technical documentation, RFCs, and tech specs.

Responsibilities

• Build our Infrastructure Platform to support the growing needs of the Engineering Organization.
• Focus on building a platform that is AI friendly while still usable for engineers.
• Deliver key infrastructure projects, break-down complex initiatives, and define our infrastructure strategy through detailed RFCs and technical specifications.

Skills

AWS

Technical writing

Cloud native

Linux/containers

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Mercury is assembling a robust Infrastructure Platform to scale the Engineering Organization, delivering reliable, secure foundations for services and teams to build on. This role emphasizes maintainable systems, quality, and deep problem-solving across Linux, containers, and cloud-native tooling.

You will contribute to a platform that enables AI-enabled workflows while remaining accessible for engineers, setting standards with RFCs and technical specifications.