Staff Infrastructure Engineer - Services Platform (Remote)

Mercury; San Francisco, New York, Portland (CA, NY, OR); Hybrid; USD 239,000 - 299,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercury seeks a Staff Infrastructure Engineer to own the services platform, defining the paved road for building and running Mercury services. You’ll set the pattern for deployment, identity, and observability while guiding a broad engineering organization through the transition.

You will partner with Release Engineering, Security, and product teams to ensure compliant, usable infrastructure and drive adoption across teams, shaping the future of Mercury’s internal platform.

Qualifications

• Deep experience operating Kubernetes in production.
• Designed or owned service-to-service authentication and discovery.
• Experience building self-service observability 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 a paved deployment path with strong defaults for rollouts, rollbacks, config, and safety.
• Evolve Mercury’s service runtime architecture, including Kubernetes, while keeping services healthy.

Skills

Kubernetes ops

Service-to-service auth

Self-service observability

Platform design

Cross-team alignment

Technical communication

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

Mercury seeks a Staff Infrastructure Engineer to own the services platform, defining the paved road for building and running Mercury services. You’ll set the pattern for deployment, identity, and observability while guiding a broad engineering organization through the transition.

You will partner with Release Engineering, Security, and product teams to ensure compliant, usable infrastructure and drive adoption across teams, shaping the future of Mercury’s internal platform.