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Merge Labs · 18 hours ago

Senior Infrastructure Engineer – Hybrid Cloud & On-Prem Systems

positionSan Francisco, CA
timeFull-time
remoteHybrid
senioritySenior Level
money$225K/yr - $260K/yr
date5+ years exp

Merge Labs is a frontier research lab focused on bridging biological and artificial intelligence. The Senior Infrastructure Engineer will define and manage the infrastructure processes for deploying applications, ensuring reliable access to data and compute for scientists and engineers.

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Responsibilities

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

Qualification

Infrastructure as CodeKubernetesCI/CDTerraformAnsibleLinux systemsNetwork securityPython deploymentConfiguration managementScientific workload supportObservability

Required

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

Company

Merge Labs

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Merge Labs provides a single API to connect software applications with multiple third-party platforms.
dateFounded in 2025
location
San Francisco, California, USA
people-size11-50 employees
web-link
https://merge.io/

Funding

Current Stage
Early Stage
Total Funding
$252M
Key Investors
OpenAI
2026-01-15Seed· $252M

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