Mercury
Senior Software Engineer - SRE
$201K–$251K
San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Portland, OR, or Remote within Canada or United States +1 · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 8, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Portland, OR, or Remote within Canada or United States
Any Office or Remote
About the job
Embeds with product teams to improve operational maturity, reliability, observability, performance, and incident preparedness, while implementing reliability improvements in application code.
What you'll do
- Establish and refine on-call, monitoring, alerting, and runbook practices; conduct game day exercises.
- Implement application reliability improvements and help teams set meaningful, customer-focused SLOs.
- Identify and close observability gaps, champion reliability in reviews, and participate in on-call rotations.
What they ask for
- Past Site Reliability Engineering or DevOps experience.
- Measurable examples of influencing an organization toward greater reliability.
- Significant experience with PostgreSQL.
- Authored and operated Temporal workflows.
Nice to have
- Experience with observability platforms like Grafana or Honeycomb.
- Familiarity with OpenTelemetry.
Pay
$200,700 — $250,900 USD (base salary); $189,700 — $237,100 CAD (base salary)
Tools
Haskell, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Temporal, Grafana, Honeycomb, OpenTelemetry
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