Platform Infrastructure Engineer - Cloud-Native, AI-Ready

Mercury; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 122,000 - 158,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercury is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to extend and secure our platform foundations. You will help scale our infrastructure, work with AWS services, and contribute to maintainable, high-quality systems used by engineers and AI agents alike.

You will craft RFCs and technical specs, ship key infrastructure projects, and collaborate with product teams to enable secure, observable, and scalable operations at speed.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of AWS experience.
• Interest in cloud-native open source tech; contribute upstream.
• Strong knowledge of Linux/file systems/containers.

Responsibilities

• Build the Infrastructure Platform to support engineering.
• Develop an AI-friendly platform usable by humans and agents.
• Deliver infrastructure projects and RFCs/tech specs to define strategy.

Skills

AWS

Cloud-native OSS

Linux fundamentals

Technical writing

Tools

Terraform

OpenSearch

Job description

Mercury is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to extend and secure our platform foundations. You will help scale our infrastructure, work with AWS services, and contribute to maintainable, high-quality systems used by engineers and AI agents alike.

You will craft RFCs and technical specs, ship key infrastructure projects, and collaborate with product teams to enable secure, observable, and scalable operations at speed.