Staff Software Engineer – Services Platform

🔥 16 hours ago

🌐 United States, Canada – Remote

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💵 $239k - $298.8k / year

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Mercury

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2017

💳 Fintech

🏦 Banking

☁️ SaaS

Fintech • Banking • SaaS

Mercury is a software-driven fintech that provides business and personal banking products built for startups and small to mid-size companies. Its platform offers business checking and savings, Treasury products, business credit cards and spend management, payments and invoicing, accounting integrations and AI-powered automations, plus APIs and developer tools. Mercury partners with FDIC-insured banks to offer deposit protection, emphasizes virtual cards, granular spend controls, and workflow automations for teams, agencies, ecommerce brands, VC funds, and crypto businesses. The product is positioned as an all-in-one banking and finance platform delivered through a modern app and API.

📋 Description

• Define and build the platform Mercury engineers use to deploy, operate, and evolve services • Own the strategy for Mercury’s service ecosystem, including identity, authentication, discovery, and communication • Work with product stakeholders and Release Engineering to create a paved deployment path with defaults for rollouts, rollbacks, configuration, secrets, and operational safety • Evolve Mercury’s service runtime architecture, including Kubernetes, while keeping existing services healthy during the transition • Make observability self-service for product engineers • Partner with Release Engineering, Security, and product engineering teams to create infrastructure compliant with financial regulations • Identify high-leverage gaps and ship pragmatic improvements • Establish patterns that support more services without proportionally increasing operational complexity • Mentor engineers and shape infrastructure thinking beyond directly owned systems

🎯 Requirements

• Deep experience operating Kubernetes in production • Strong instincts around deployment architecture, failure modes, and migrations • Experience designing or materially owning service-to-service authentication, workload identity, service discovery, service mesh, or related distributed-systems infrastructure • Experience building self-service observability or operational tooling for application engineers • Strong platform-design judgment, including knowing when not to build something • Product-oriented internal-platform mindset, including adoption, ergonomics, defaults, documentation, and escape hatches • Ability to gain alignment across teams with different goals and perspectives • Ability to communicate technical tradeoffs clearly • Experience operating at the boundary between deep technical work and broad organizational leverage • Experience building an internal developer platform or service infrastructure at a scaled engineering organization is useful

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity (stock options/RSUs) • Benefits • Reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities or special needs