Software Engineer - Infrastructure

Mercury is a fintech company building technology and infrastructure for modern financial services. The Software Engineer - Infrastructure will build and operate a secure, observable, and maintainable infrastructure platform, supporting AWS, networking, container orchestration, and AI-friendly tooling. The role also involves delivering infrastructure projects, writing technical specifications, and partnering with product engineers to solve complex production problems.

Responsibilities:

• Build our “Infrastructure Platform” to support the growing needs of the Engineering Organization
• Focus on building a platform that is AI friendly while still usable for engineers. We want our users to be humans and Agents
• Deliver key infrastructure projects, break-down complex initiatives, and define our infrastructure strategy through detailed RFCs and technical specifications

Requirements:

• • You have 2+ years of experience with AWS
• • You have a keen interest in cloud native open source technologies, and feel comfortable contributing code upstream to these technologies
• • Strong knowledge of low-level operating system foundations (linux, file systems, containers, etc)
• • You have demonstrated ability in technical writing, with at least 2 years of experience creating detailed technical documentation, RFCs, and tech specs that clearly communicate complex ideas
• • Be used to operating in regulated environments such as HITRUST or SOC2, ensuring compliance and security
• • Have 2+ years of experience working in massive terraform environments, with many engineers contributing code in a scalable way
• • Have 2+ years of experience writing code. We are building an Infrastructure Platform from scratch and there is plenty of code to write to support that
• • Be extremely willing to learn and dive into hard problems! We have many to solve!