Senior or Staff DevOps Engineer

MERGE is seeking a Senior or Staff DevOps Engineer to join our foundations engineering team. With a minimum of 5 years of experience, you’ll help scale infrastructure to support massive enterprise customers and drive our re-architecture strategy as we grow. You’ll navigate ambiguity and tackle technical debt to build robust foundations that enable rapid, reliable delivery across teams.

What youll do

• Work with the engineering team to produce highly performant, reliable, and scalable architectures for our largest customers.
• Improve the sophistication of deployment pipelines and build self-serve infrastructure tooling (like Atlantis) to enable other engineering teams to move faster.
• Develop isolated deployment capabilities (managed VPCs) for upmarket customers within their hosted ecosystems (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Lead large projects from initial inception to production, participating in roadmapping, architecture, and planning discussions.
• Participate in on-call rotation and system maintenance activities.

What MERGE is looking for

• Experience in a startup or growth-stage B2B SaaS company.
• 8+ years in DevOps engineering positions.
• Experience designing and deploying highly scalable systems, high-throughput data workloads, and production-grade CI/CD.
• Proficiency in Python.
• Experience with Observability (Prometheus), Redis, Elasticsearch.
• Experience with self-hosted deployments (managed VPC-style architectures).
• Experience with Terraform and Kubernetes.
• Experience with multiple cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Experience untangling technical debt.
• Strong CS fundamentals.