Mercury
Software Engineer - Infrastructure
$122K–$158K
San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Portland, OR, or Remote within Canada or United States +1 · Remote · Full-time · Posted Aug 21, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Portland, OR, or Remote within Canada or United States
Any Office or Remote - Experience
- 2+ years with AWS; at least 2 years creating technical documentation, RFCs, and technical specifications. Preferred: 2+ years in large Terraform environments and 2+ years writing code.
About the job
Build and maintain Mercury’s infrastructure platform, enabling engineers and AI agents to deploy and operate services securely, observably, and efficiently.
What you'll do
- Build the Infrastructure Platform for the growing engineering organization, including AI-friendly capabilities for human and agent users.
- Deliver infrastructure projects, break down complex initiatives, and define infrastructure strategy through RFCs and technical specifications.
- Maintain infrastructure spanning networking, container orchestration, and AWS needs, working with product teams.
What they ask for
- 2+ years of experience with AWS.
- Strong knowledge of low-level operating system foundations, including Linux, file systems, and containers.
- At least 2 years of experience creating detailed technical documentation, RFCs, and technical specifications.
- Interest in cloud-native open-source technologies and comfort contributing code upstream.
Nice to have
- Experience operating in regulated environments such as HITRUST or SOC2.
- 2+ years working in large Terraform environments or writing code.
Pay
$122,400 — $158,400 USD (base salary); $115,700 — $149,700 CAD (base salary)
Tools
AWS, EC2, RDS, OpenSearch, ECS, EKS, Terraform, GitHub Actions
AI focus
Build AI-friendly infrastructure and systems that let AI agents safely interact with infrastructure with appropriate guardrails.
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