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The role
Mercury, a fintech company, is hiring a Staff Infrastructure Engineer to own its services platform as teams move off the Haskell monolith. The work covers deployment, service identity and discovery, and observability. The posting gives pay for US and Canadian employees.
What you will do
- Define and build the platform engineers use to deploy, operate and evolve services
- Own strategy for service identity, authentication, discovery and communication
- Create a deployment path with strong defaults for rollouts, rollbacks, configuration and secrets
- Evolve the service runtime architecture, including Kubernetes, while keeping existing services healthy
- Make observability self-service for product engineers
- Work with Release Engineering and Security on regulation-compliant infrastructure, and mentor engineers
What they ask for
- Deep experience operating Kubernetes in production, including deployment architecture and migrations
- Experience owning service-to-service authentication, workload identity, service discovery or service mesh
- Experience building self-service observability or operational tooling for application engineers
- Ability to gain alignment across teams with different goals
- Clear communication of technical trade-offs
- Internal developer platform experience at scale is useful but not required
What they offer
- Total rewards of base salary, equity (stock options or RSUs) and benefits
This is our own short reading of the posting. The full description, and anything that has changed since, is on Mercury's careers page behind the apply button.
