Senior Software Engineer

Who you are

• Has past Site Reliability Engineering or DevOps experience
• Has measurable examples of influencing an organization towards greater reliability
• Has significant experience with PostgreSQL
• Has authored and operated Temporal workflows
• Has experience with observability platforms like Grafana or Honeycomb
• Has familiarity with OpenTelemetry

What the job involves

• Up to this point, the Stability team at Mercury has primarily built platform-level constructs that product teams adopt. However, those teams are asking for us to work more closely with them to mature their implementations and practices. We are creating an SRE team that will rotate through product teams
• You will understand the team's domain, identify opportunities for improvements in reliability/observability/performance/preparedness and create self-reinforcing, virtuous cycles
• Embed with product teams, helping them improve their operational maturity by setting up and refining practices around on-call, monitoring, alerting, and run books
• Run regular game day exercises with product teams, helping them feel more prepared to investigate and quickly remediate incidents
• Jump into application code written in Haskell & TypeScript and implement reliability techniques such as retries, better error handling, better logging, circuit breaking, etc
• Steer SLOs towards meaningful customer outcomes that product teams are accountable for. Those SLOs become a strong signal for whether the product is working as intended
• Champion reliability practices through design document and code reviews
• Identify observability gaps that hinder debugging, incident response, and business intelligence and help close those
• Advocate for longer-term improvements that non-product engineering teams can drive
• Participate in the product team's on-call rotation while embedding or as part of a more general engineering rotation, helping us improve processes and how we learn from incidents

Benefits

• Health, dental, & vision
• 12+ weeks of paid parental leave
• $600 USD custom WFH equipment setup
• Unlimited vacation policy (with a mandatory minimum)
• Annual $1K learning & development budget
• Paid 6-week sabbatical after the 5-year mark
• Weekly $100 food budget
• Monthly $100 wellness budget
• Monthly $50 cellphone reimbursement
• Pet-friendly offices with free tea and beverages, plus lunch and snacks
• Unlimited vacation policy (with a mandatory minimum)
• Retirement matching up to 4% of base salary (401K/RRSP)
• Inclusive fertility, hormonal health, and family-forming benefits through Carrot Fertility