Staff Software Engineer - Services Platform (Fintech)

Location: San Francisco, CA; New York, NY; Portland, OR; or remote within Canada or the United States

Salary: US employees: $239,000–$298,800 USD; Canadian employees: $225,900–$282,400 USD

Company

Mercury is a fintech company providing banking services through partner financial institutions.

What you will do

• Define and build the platform used to deploy, operate, and evolve independent services.
• Own service ecosystem strategy covering identity, authentication, discovery, and communication.
• Develop safe deployment paths with strong defaults for rollouts, rollbacks, configuration, secrets, and operational safety.
• Evolve the service runtime architecture, including Kubernetes, while keeping existing services healthy during migration.
• Build self-service observability and operational tooling for product engineers.
• Partner with Release Engineering, Security, and product teams to create compliant, adoptable infrastructure and mentor engineers.

Requirements

• Deep production experience operating Kubernetes.
• Strong understanding of deployment architecture, failure modes, and migrations.
• Experience designing or owning service-to-service authentication, workload identity, service discovery, service mesh, or related distributed-systems infrastructure.
• Experience building self-service observability or operational tooling.
• Ability to make platform-design tradeoffs, align teams, and communicate technical decisions clearly.
• Experience building internal developer platforms or service infrastructure at scale is useful, with emphasis on successful adoption by other engineering teams.

Culture & Benefits

• Technical ownership with broad organizational impact.
• Opportunity to shape the foundations of a rapidly evolving services ecosystem.
• Total rewards include base salary, equity through stock options or RSUs, and benefits.
• Commitment to diversity, belonging, equal employment opportunity, and reasonable accommodations.