Staff Platform Engineer: Kubernetes & Service Ecosystem

Mercury; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercury in the United States is seeking a Staff Infrastructure Engineer to own the platforms that deploy, operate, and evolve Mercury's services. This is a deeply technical, systems-level role focused on standardizing patterns while guiding a large engineering organization through change.

You’ll define the paved deployment path, evolve the runtime architecture with Kubernetes, and make observability self-service so product engineers can diagnose issues without routing every question through

Qualifications

• Define and build the platform Mercury engineers use to deploy, operate, and evolve services.
• Own the service-ecosystem strategy including identity, authentication, discovery and communication.
• Create paved deployment paths with defaults for rollouts, rollbacks, configuration and secrets.
• Evolve the service runtime architecture, including Kubernetes, while keeping services healthy.
• Make observability self-service so engineers can debug systems without asking Infra.
• Collaborate with Release Engineering, Security and product teams to enforce compliance and adoption.
• Find high-leverage gaps and ship pragmatic improvements rather than chasing perfect future.
• Establish patterns to scale Mercury's services without proportional complexity.
• Mentor engineers and shape infrastructure thinking.

Responsibilities

• Define and build the platform Mercury engineers use to deploy, operate, and evolve services.
• Own the strategy for service ecosystem at Mercury including identity, authentication, discovery and communication.
• Work with product stakeholders and Release Engineering to create a paved deployment path with strong defaults for rollouts, rollbacks, configuration, secrets, and operational safety.
• Help evolve Mercury’s service runtime architecture, including our use of Kubernetes, while keeping existing services healthy through the transition.
• Make observability self-service so product engineers can understand and debug their systems without routing every question through Infrastructure.
• Partner closely with Release Engineering, Security, and product engineering teams to create infrastructure that is compliant with financial regulations and useful enough that teams actively want to adopt it.
• Find the highest-leverage gaps in our services ecosystem and ship pragmatic improvements instead of waiting for a perfect future architecture.
• Establish patterns that let Mercury support many more services without multiplying operational complexity at the same rate.
• Mentor engineers and shape infrastructure thinking beyond the systems you directly own.

Skills

Kubernetes

Deployment strategy

Reliability engineering

Mentoring

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

Mercury in the United States is seeking a Staff Infrastructure Engineer to own the platforms that deploy, operate, and evolve Mercury's services. This is a deeply technical, systems-level role focused on standardizing patterns while guiding a large engineering organization through change.

You’ll define the paved deployment path, evolve the runtime architecture with Kubernetes, and make observability self-service so product engineers can diagnose issues without routing every question through