Staff Software Engineer - Services Platform

Any Office or RemoteFull-time$239k2026-10-09 → 2026-11-13

Core

Define and build the platform for deploying, operating, and evolving independent services at Mercury, focusing on identity, authentication, discovery, and communication.

Role type

Staff Infrastructure Engineer (Services Platform)

Builds

Internal developer platform and service ecosystem infrastructure

Domain

Fintech, Cloud Infrastructure, Distributed Systems

Required skills

Kubernetes production operations, service-to-service authentication, workload identity, service discovery, service mesh, self-service observability, platform design, organizational alignment, technical tradeoff communication

Preferred skills

Internal developer platform experience, scaled engineering organization experience

Technologies

Kubernetes

Responsibilities

Define and build the platform for deploying, operating, and evolving services; Own the strategy for service ecosystem including identity and authentication; Create paved deployment paths with strong defaults; Evolve service runtime architecture; Make observability self-service; Mentor engineers and shape infrastructure thinking

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with strategic scope

About Mercury

Mercury is on a mission to defy those expectations. We're a financial technology company that helps startups spend less time banking* and more time building. We believe that the key to our success revolves around thoughtful design — and we hold the craft of that design to an exceptionally high standard. We're looking for a Staff Brand Designer who sets that bar: someone whose eye is so precise, and whose execution is so considered, that the work around them gets better just by virtue of their presence.