Mercury
Staff Software Engineer - Services Platform
US, Canada
UTC-10 to UTC-3.5 $239k to $299k per year Full time
Lead or Staff
- Where you can live
- San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Portland, OR, or Remote within Canada or United States
- Working hours
- Overlap with UTC-10 to UTC-3.5
- Salary
- USD 239,000 to 298,800 per year
- Posted
- October 9, 2026
Kubernetes
B2B SaaS
Summary from the posting
- 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 communication
- Work with product stakeholders and Release Engineering to create a paved deployment path with strong defaults for rollouts, rollbacks, configuration, secrets, and operational safety.
- Help evolve Mercury’s service runtime architecture, including our use of Kubernetes, while keeping existing services healthy through the transition.
- Make observability self-service so product engineers can understand and debug their systems without routing every question through Infrastructure.
This is a short summary. The full description, requirements and the application form are on Mercury's own career page.