Staff Infrastructure Engineer — Platform & Service Reliability

Mercury; California; On-site; USD 239,000 - 299,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercury is building a scalable services platform, and we’re hiring a Staff Infrastructure Engineer to own Mercury’s services ecosystem. You will define the paved road for deploying, operating, and evolving internal services and set strong defaults for reliability and security.

In this deeply technical role, you’ll design platform capabilities around identity, authentication, discovery, and observability, mentor engineers, and align teams to adopt pragmatic, product-like internal platforms.

Qualifications

• Deep experience operating Kubernetes in production.
• Designed or owned service-to-service authentication, workload identity, service discovery, service mesh, or related infrastructure.
• Built self-service observability or operational tooling for engineers.

Responsibilities

• Define and build the platform Mercury engineers use to deploy, operate, and evolve services.
• Own the strategy for service ecosystem including identity, authentication, discovery and communication.
• Create deployment paths with strong defaults for rollouts, rollbacks, configuration, secrets, and safety.
• Evolve Mercury’s service runtime architecture while keeping existing services healthy.
• Mentor engineers and shape infrastructure thinking beyond the systems you own.

Skills

Kubernetes in production

Service authentication

Service discovery

Observability tooling

Platform design

Stakeholder alignment

Technical communication

Internal developer platform

Job description

Mercury is building a scalable services platform, and we’re hiring a Staff Infrastructure Engineer to own Mercury’s services ecosystem. You will define the paved road for deploying, operating, and evolving internal services and set strong defaults for reliability and security.

In this deeply technical role, you’ll design platform capabilities around identity, authentication, discovery, and observability, mentor engineers, and align teams to adopt pragmatic, product-like internal platforms.