Software Engineer - Infrastructure
Mercury · San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Portland, OR, or Remote within Canada or United States
Posted 26 days ago
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 26 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 Software Engineer on the Infrastructure team at Mercury, you will focus on building and enhancing the Infrastructure Platform to support the engineering organization. Your day-to-day tasks will involve working with AWS technologies, managing infrastructure as code with Terraform, and collaborating with product teams to ensure the infrastructure meets their needs. You will also be responsible for delivering key infrastructure projects and creating detailed technical documentation.
- benefits
- 2/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- 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
- 2+ years of experience with AWS
- Strong knowledge of low-level operating system foundations (linux, file systems, containers, etc)
- 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
- Keen interest in cloud native open source technologies, and feel comfortable contributing code upstream to these technologies
Nice to have
- Experience operating in regulated environments such as HITRUST or SOC2
- 2+ years of experience working in massive terraform environments, with many engineers contributing code in a scalable way
- 2+ years of experience writing code
What you get
- Base salary
- Equity (stock options/RSUs)
- Competitive salary and equity ranges
- Regular updates using reliable compensation survey data
Worth weighing
- No specific mention of remote work flexibility beyond the listed locations
- The role involves a significant amount of technical writing and documentation, which may not appeal to all candidates
- The infrastructure is described as complex, which may involve a steep learning curve
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Listed by Mercury on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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