Founding Platform & Infrastructure Engineer

Mercator; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance

Unique company retreats

Job summary

A tech-focused supply chain company in San Francisco is seeking a Platform/Infrastructure Engineer to design and implement scalable, secure, and resilient systems. You will manage cloud environments, databases, and lead security and compliance efforts. This role is critical for developing internal platforms that enhance engineering velocity. The position offers comprehensive health benefits and unique company retreats.

Qualifications

• Experience in building and managing cloud infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of security and compliance practices.
• Ability to design resilient and scalable systems.

Responsibilities

• Architect the backbone for various platform components.
• Own cloud environments, databases, and observability stack.
• Lead the security and compliance foundation for SOC 2 readiness.

Skills

Cloud environments

Database management

Security and compliance management

System design

Job description

Company Description

Mercator is building AI agents that coordinate global supply chains. Today’s systems leak $1.7T in waste each year in retail alone -- in overproduction, lost revenue, and unnecessary emissions.

Mercator’s founders are seasoned technical operators with a decade of experience leading cutting-edge AI and simulation efforts across Google (Gemini, Tensorflow, Google X).

Role Description

As Mercator’s first Platform/Infrastructure engineer, you’ll architect the backbone that makes everything else possible. From our ingestion engine to our simulation engine to our web application, you’ll design the systems that keep our platform fast, secure, and resilient as we scale. This is a high-leverage role where you’ll turn scrappy prototypes into production-grade infrastructure, and where the tools and workflows you build will directly determine how quickly we can ship.

You’ll own our cloud environments, databases, deployments, and observability stack. You’ll also lead the security and compliance foundation needed for SOC 2 and enterprise readiness. And because our platform integrates with a wide range of external systems, you’ll build the pathways that allow customers to seamlessly move data into and take action through our product.

If you love building internal platforms that engineers actually want to use, turning infrastructure into a product, and creating the rails that unlock engineering velocity, this is the role. The systems you build will define our reliability, our security posture, and the speed at which Mercator can scale.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
• As a company we’ll work from a fun destination (think: skiing, surfing) two weeks a year

Applicants must have valid U.S. work authorization. We are able to support H-1B transfers but are not initiating new visa sponsorships at this time.