Founding Platform & Infrastructure Engineer

Mercator

$130K — $180K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in platform or infrastructure engineering
  • Strong background in cloud environments and database management
  • Experience with deployment pipelines and observability tools
  • Proficient in security frameworks, particularly SOC 2 compliance
  • Ability to translate scrappy prototypes into production-grade infrastructure

Responsibilities

  • Design and architect core infrastructure systems for scalability and resilience
  • Own and manage cloud environments, databases, and deployment processes
  • Implement observability solutions to monitor system health and performance
  • Establish security foundations for compliance and enterprise readiness
  • Build integrations for seamless data movement with external systems

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
  • Work at an exciting destination twice a year for team-building activities
Full Job Description
Role Description

As Mercator's first Platform/Infrastructure engineer, you'll architect the backbone that makes everything else possible. From our ingestion engine to our simulation engine to our web application, you'll design the systems that keep our platform fast, secure, and resilient as we scale. This is a high-leverage role where you'll turn scrappy prototypes into production-grade infrastructure, and where the tools and workflows you build will directly determine how quickly we can ship.

You'll own our cloud environments, databases, deployments, and observability stack. You'll also lead the security and compliance foundation needed for SOC 2 and enterprise readiness. And because our platform integrates with a wide range of external systems, you'll build the pathways that allow customers to seamlessly move data into and take action through our product.

If you love building internal platforms that engineers actually want to use, turning infrastructure into a product, and creating the rails that unlock engineering velocity, this is the role. The systems you build will define our reliability, our security posture, and the speed at which Mercator can scale.

Benefits
  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
  • As a company we'll work from a fun destination (think: skiing, surfing) two weeks a year


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