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Senior Software Engineer - SRE

Mercury
Location
San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Portland, OR, or Remote within Canada or United States
Posted
12 days ago
Department
Engineering
What they actually want (must-haves)
  • 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 the job really is

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
  • Base salary
  • Equity (stock options/RSUs)
  • Highly competitive salary and equity ranges
  • Regular updates based on reliable compensation survey data
Things to weigh
  • 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
Job score3/5
Benefits2/5
Freshness5/5
Career value4/5
Role clarity4/5
Pay transparency0/5

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