DevOps Engineer

Merge•San Francisco, CA

13d•$155,000 - $185,000

About The Position

Merge is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to join its Foundations Engineering team. The role will help shape infrastructure and AWS strategies for Merge’s data and services, and contribute to the company’s re-architecture as it scales. Working with the engineering team, the DevOps Engineer will design highly performant, reliable, and scalable architectures for systems serving large customers and processing millions of rows per second across databases, workers, and services. The position also involves planning and architecture discussions, building maintainable infrastructure as code, leading projects from inception through production, operating production systems at scale, and participating in on-call rotation and infrastructure maintenance. The cash compensation range is $155,000–$185,000. Employees also receive equity compensation. Benefits include unlimited paid time off, 10 company holidays, pre-tax commuter benefits, fully covered health, vision, and dental insurance, a 401(k) plan, a one-time home office stipend, dinner when working past 6 p.m., annual company off-sites, and quarterly team events.

Requirements

At least 4 years of full-time DevOps experience.
Deep experience with AWS or GCP cloud infrastructure, Terraform, and Kubernetes.
Ability to own the planning and deployment of highly scalable systems.
Familiarity with some or all of AWS Aurora, Redshift, Kinesis, EC2, EKS, ECS, Redis, Elasticsearch, Prometheus, Grafana, and VictoriaMetrics.

Responsibilities

Work with the engineering team to build highly performant, reliable, and scalable architectures for large customers and systems processing millions of rows per second across databases, workers, and services.
Participate in roadmapping, architecture, and planning discussions.
Produce high-quality, production-ready, maintainable infrastructure as code.
Lead large projects from initial inception through production.
Run production systems at scale.
Participate in the on-call rotation and infrastructure maintenance.