# Senior Software Engineer - SRE

**Company:** [Mercury](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/mercury)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $190k – $251k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Haskell, TypeScript, Postgres, Temporal, Grafana, Honeycomb, OpenTelemetry, SLOs, Observability, Incident Response
**Posted:** 2026-09-08

> Senior SRE who embeds with product teams to improve reliability, observability, performance, and incident preparedness. The role requires SRE or DevOps experience, strong PostgreSQL and Temporal expertise, and familiarity with observability platforms and OpenTelemetry.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Embed with product teams to improve operational maturity through on-call, monitoring, alerting, and runbook practices.
- Run game day exercises to improve incident investigation and remediation readiness.
- Implement reliability techniques in Haskell and TypeScript application code, including retries, error handling, logging, and circuit breaking.
- Establish meaningful SLOs tied to customer outcomes.
- Champion reliability practices through design-document and code reviews.
- Identify and close observability gaps affecting debugging, incident response, and business intelligence.
- Advocate for longer-term reliability improvements led by non-product engineering teams.
- Participate in product-team and general engineering on-call rotations and improve incident-learning processes.

## Requirements
- Previous Site Reliability Engineering or DevOps experience.
- Demonstrated impact influencing an organization toward greater reliability.
- Significant PostgreSQL experience.
- Experience authoring and operating Temporal workflows.
- Experience with observability platforms such as Grafana or Honeycomb.
- Familiarity with OpenTelemetry.

## Compensation
- US employees: $200,700–$250,900 USD base salary.
- Canadian employees: $189,700–$237,100 CAD base salary.
- Compensation also includes equity and benefits.

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