# Staff Software Engineer - Services Platform at Mercury

- Company: Mercury
- What the company does: Everything you do with money. All in one place. Apply in 10 minutes for business banking that transforms how you operate. Backed by Sequoia, a16z and 500 Global.
- Company website: https://mercury.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Portland, OR, or Remote within Canada or United States
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-10-09
- Apply by: 2026-11-23
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/mercury/jobs/6221407004?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/mercury-staff-software-engineer-services-platform/

## About the role

We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer - Services Platform to become a technical owner for Mercury’s services platform. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Define and build the platform Mercury engineers use to deploy, operate, and evolve services
- Own the strategy for service ecosystem at Mercury including identity, authentication, discovery and communication
- Work with product stakeholders and Release Engineering to create a paved deployment path with strong defaults for rollouts, rollbacks, configuration, secrets, and operational safety
- Help evolve Mercury’s service runtime architecture, including our use of Kubernetes, while keeping existing services healthy through the transition
- Make observability self-service so product engineers can understand and debug their systems without routing every question through Infrastructure
- Partner closely with Release Engineering, Security, and product engineering teams to create infrastructure that is compliant with financial regulations and useful enough that teams actively want to adopt it

Tags: Engineering

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/mercury-staff-software-engineer-services-platform/