Merge Labs

Senior Infrastructure Engineer – Hybrid Cloud, On-Prem Systems

Merge Labs

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: San FranciscoCaliforniaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $225,000 - $305,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Define and manage on-prem and cloud infrastructure using IaC (Terraform or equivalent).
  • Stand up and maintain core storage and compute infrastructure, including centralized storage, VMs, and K8s clusters.
  • Configure secure network boundaries, ACLs, and monitoring systems.
  • Deploy and manage internal scientific services (e.g., OMERO) and software-facing services (e.g., Dagster).
  • Establish conventions for reproducible, self-service deployment of pipelines and applications.
  • Partner with scientists and data engineers to ensure reliable, performant access to data and compute.
  • Drive continuous improvement of uptime, observability, and deployment velocity.

Requirements

  • 5–10+ years of experience building and operating infrastructure in on-premises environments.
  • Strong fluency in Terraform (or similar IaC), Ansible (or comparable configuration management tooling), Linux systems, and container orchestration (K8s).
  • Experience with ZFS, fACLs, and network-level access control.
  • Deep understanding of CI/CD, observability, and configuration management.
  • Strong software fundamentals and working understanding of the process of deploying Python code to production.
  • Proven ability to balance reliability, security, and velocity in a research or data-heavy environment.
  • Comfort supporting production users and scientific workloads with minimal abstraction layers.
  • Comfort owning systems end-to-end—from design and implementation to deployment and monitoring.
  • Interest in enabling science through infrastructure excellence—no prior biology experience required.
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Hard Skills & Tools
TerraformAnsibleLinuxKubernetesZFSfACLsCI/CDobservabilityconfiguration managementPython
Soft Skills
reliabilitysecurityvelocitycollaborationproblem-solvingcommunicationcontinuous improvementuser supportownershipadaptability