Staff Software Engineer - Services Platform

📋 Description

• 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
• Work with product stakeholders and Release Engineering to create a paved deployment path with
• Help evolve Mercury’s service runtime architecture, including our use of Kubernetes, while keeping
• Make observability self-service so product engineers can understand and debug their systems without
• Partner closely with Release Engineering, Security, and product engineering teams to create

🎯 Requirements

• Deep experience operating Kubernetes in production and strong instincts around deployment
• Designed or materially owned service-to-service authentication, workload identity, service
• Experience building self-service observability or operational tooling for application engineers.
• Strong opinions about platform design, paired with the judgment to know when not to build something.
• Think of internal platforms as products. Adoption, ergonomics, defaults, documentation, and escape
• Able to gain alignment across teams with different goals and perspectives without requiring

🎁 Benefits

• Base salary
• Equity (stock options/RSUs)
• Benefits