Senior Software Engineer - SRE
Mercury · San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Portland, OR, or Remote within Canada or United States
Posted 8 days ago
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 8 days Mercury's roles stay open a median of 42 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 2% of Mercury's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Mercury
- high 26 stale, 1 reposted of 60 open
- Hiring momentum
- 92 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Mercury's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Mercury.
About this role
As a Senior Software Engineer focused on Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) at Mercury, you will work closely with product teams to enhance their operational maturity, focusing on practices such as monitoring, alerting, and on-call processes. Your role will involve implementing reliability techniques in application code, conducting game day exercises, and advocating for reliability improvements across the organization. You will also participate in on-call rotations and help identify observability gaps to improve incident response and business intelligence.
- benefits
- 2/5
- freshness
- 5/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 4/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Mercury as an employer.
What you need
- Past Site Reliability Engineering or DevOps experience
- Measurable examples of influencing an organization towards greater reliability
- Significant experience with PostgreSQL
- Experience with observability platforms like Grafana or Honeycomb
- Familiarity with OpenTelemetry
- Experience authoring and operating Temporal workflows
What you get
- Base salary
- Equity (stock options/RSUs)
- Highly competitive salary and equity ranges
- Regular updates based on reliable compensation survey data
Worth weighing
- No specific mention of the tech stack beyond Haskell and TypeScript
- Role involves embedding with product teams, which may require adaptability to different team dynamics
- On-call rotation participation may lead to unpredictable hours
Summarised from Mercury's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by Mercury on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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