About the role

Staff infrastructure engineer building Mercury’s fintech services platform, service ecosystem, and Kubernetes deployment standards. Improving observability, operational safety, and scalable infrastructure adoption across engineering teams.

Responsibilities

Define and build the platform Mercury engineers use to deploy, operate, and evolve services
Own the strategy for Mercury’s service ecosystem, including identity, authentication, discovery, and communication
Work with product stakeholders and Release Engineering to create a paved deployment path with defaults for rollouts, rollbacks, configuration, secrets, and operational safety
Evolve Mercury’s service runtime architecture, including Kubernetes, while keeping existing services healthy during the transition
Make observability self-service for product engineers
Partner with Release Engineering, Security, and product engineering teams to create infrastructure compliant with financial regulations
Identify high-leverage gaps and ship pragmatic improvements
Establish patterns that support more services without proportionally increasing operational complexity
Mentor engineers and shape infrastructure thinking beyond directly owned systems

Deep experience operating Kubernetes in production
Strong instincts around deployment architecture, failure modes, and migrations
Experience designing or materially owning service-to-service authentication, workload identity, service discovery, service mesh, or related distributed-systems infrastructure
Experience building self-service observability or operational tooling for application engineers
Strong platform-design judgment, including knowing when not to build something
Product-oriented internal-platform mindset, including adoption, ergonomics, defaults, documentation, and escape hatches
Ability to gain alignment across teams with different goals and perspectives
Ability to communicate technical tradeoffs clearly
Experience operating at the boundary between deep technical work and broad organizational leverage
Experience building an internal developer platform or service infrastructure at a scaled engineering organization is useful

Equity (stock options/RSUs)
Benefits
Reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities or special needs