Senior Software Engineer - SRE

Mercury is a fintech company engineering the future of banking. The Senior Software Engineer - SRE will rotate through product teams to improve reliability, observability, performance, and incident preparedness by embedding with teams, implementing reliability techniques, and strengthening operational practices.

Responsibilities:

• Embed with product teams, helping them improve their operational maturity by setting up and refining practices around on-call, monitoring, alerting, and run books
• Run regular game day exercises with product teams, helping them feel more prepared to investigate and quickly remediate incidents
• Jump into application code written in Haskell & TypeScript and implement reliability techniques such as retries, better error handling, better logging, circuit breaking, etc
• Steer SLOs towards meaningful customer outcomes that product teams are accountable for. Those SLOs become a strong signal for whether the product is working as intended
• Champion reliability practices through design document and code reviews
• Identify observability gaps that hinder debugging, incident response, and business intelligence and help close those
• Advocate for longer-term improvements that non-product engineering teams can drive
• Participate in the product team's on-call rotation while embedding or as part of a more general engineering rotation, helping us improve processes and how we learn from incidents

Requirements:

• Has past Site Reliability Engineering or DevOps experience
• Has measurable examples of influencing an organization towards greater reliability
• Has significant experience with PostgreSQL
• Has authored and operated Temporal workflows
• Has experience with observability platforms like Grafana or Honeycomb
• Has familiarity with OpenTelemetry