What are the responsibilities and job description for the Software Engineer - Stability position at Mercury?
The year is 1969. The location : Stuttgart, West Germany. Engineers are pacing with strained expressions on their faces. They are looking over the Porsche 917, the company's latest attempt at a race car. It's not working properly. The car is one of the most powerful ever built. But drivers describe it as terrifyingly unstable... "a monster". Despite this, Porsche runs it in Le Mans to disastrous results. One of the cars crashes on lap one, killing its driver, John Woolfe. All other 917s break down in the race.
Enter John Wyer, a British race engineer, whom the factory calls upon for help. After a long day of testing, John recognizes a lack of smashed bugs on the rear wing and deduces that the wing is not working properly. The team modifies the design to be more upward swept and the 917K takes on a new winning character. It wins LeMans outright in 1970 and goes on to be the most successful race car design of the 70s. Stability, it turns out, was the missing ingredient.
Mercury is a company that prides itself in providing powerful banking
- services. But without those services being reliable and stable, it will fail. The Stability team exists to help product engineers see those patterns of instability and remedy them. We champion and improve observability. We've helped define incident response. We have introduced and support robust background work processing. We monitor and build tooling around platform and database health. And with your help, we will explore how to make Mercury even more reliable.
As part of this role, you will :
The ideal candidate for this role :
If would be nice if you :
The total rewards package at Mercury includes base salary, equity (stock options), and benefits. Our salary and equity ranges are highly competitive within the SaaS and fintech industry and are updated regularly using the most reliable compensation survey data for our industry. New hire offers are made based on a candidate's experience, expertise, geographic location, and internal pay equity relative to peers.
Our target new hire base salary ranges for this role are the following :
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Salary : $149,600 - $158,400
