Founding Platform & Infrastructure Engineer
About The Position
Mercator is building AI agents that coordinate global supply chains. Today’s systems leak $1.7T in waste each year in retail alone - in overproduction, lost revenue, and unnecessary emissions. Mercator’s founders are seasoned technical operators with a decade of experience leading cutting-edge AI and simulation efforts across Google (Gemini, Tensorflow, & Google X). We recently raised $5M in seed funding from leading Silicon Valley investors and are scaling our small, elite engineering team to meet growing customer demand. 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.
Requirements
- Experience in building internal platforms that engineers want to use.
- Experience in turning infrastructure into a product.
- Experience in creating systems that enable engineering velocity.
- Valid U.S. work authorization.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with AI and simulation efforts.
Responsibilities
- Architect the backbone of the platform, ensuring it is fast, secure, and resilient.
- Design and build systems for ingestion, simulation, and web applications.
- Turn prototypes into production-grade infrastructure.
- Own cloud environments, databases, deployments, and observability stack.
- Lead the security and compliance foundation for SOC 2 and enterprise readiness.
- Build pathways for seamless data integration with external systems.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
- Company-sponsored destination trips (e.g., skiing, surfing) for two weeks annually.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
