
Senior Infrastructure Engineer – Hybrid Cloud, On-Prem Systems
Merge Labs
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: San Francisco • California • United 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