At its height, the Venetian Arsenal could produce ships at a speed that were mostly unmatched in its era. Its advantage was not simply that its craftspeople worked faster. Venice standardized the pieces around them. Parts, processes, and responsibilities became reusable enough that shipbuilding became stamp and repeat, not creating from scratch every time.
Mercury's services ecosystem is reaching a similar transition.
As more of Mercury moves beyond our core Haskell monolith, product teams are increasingly building and operating independent services. That gives teams more flexibility, but it also creates a new class of infrastructure problems. How should services authenticate to each other? How should they be discovered? What does a safe deployment look like? How does an engineer understand whether their service is healthy? And how do we answer those questions once, rather than asking every product team to build its own version?
We’re looking for a Staff Infrastructure Engineer to become a technical owner for Mercury’s services platform.
You’ll help define the paved road for building and running services at Mercury. This is a deeply technical role, but the hardest problems won’t be solved by writing code. You’ll need excellent judgment about what is worth standardizing, what should stay flexible, how quickly we can move, and how to bring a large engineering organization along with you. We see this role as the trailblazer for several more engineers to follow so the foundations and relationships you build across the org will pay off for those who come after!
Experience building an internal developer platform or service infrastructure at a scaled engineering organization would be particularly useful, but we care more about the systems you built, the decisions you made, and whether other teams successfully adopted them than the logo on your résumé.
Mercury’s infrastructure is evolving rapidly every day. The service ecosystem is large enough that these problems are real, but young enough that a great engineer can still shape the fundamentals.
If you want to build the standards that make the next fifty services feel far less exciting to operate than the first ten, we’d love to talk.
*Mercury is a fintech company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided through Choice Financial Group and Column N.A., Members FDIC.
Mercury values diversity & belonging and is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All individuals seeking employment at Mercury are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected characteristic. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities or special needs. If you need assistance, or an accommodation, please let your recruiter know once you are contacted about a role.
#LI-ME1 Total Rewards The total rewards package at Mercury includes base salary, equity (stock options/RSUs), and benefits.
Our salary and equity ranges are highly competitive within the SaaS and fintech industry and are updated regularly using the most reliable compensation survey data for our industry. New hire offers are made based on a candidate’s experience, expertise, geographic location, and internal pay equity relative to peers.
Our target new hire base salary ranges for this role are the following:
US employees (any location): $239,000—$298,800 USD
Canadian employees (any location): $225,900—$282,400 USD
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