DevOps Engineer

Protocol Labs, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 155,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

10 company holidays

Pre-Tax commuter benefits

Health, vision, and dental insurance

401K Plan

Home office stipend

Free dinner after 6pm

Job summary

Protocol Labs, Inc. is seeking an experienced DevOps engineer for its Foundations Engineering team in San Francisco. You will help shape infrastructure strategy across AWS, Kubernetes and Terraform, and scale services for top enterprise customers.

You will run on-call rotations, lead large projects, and deliver production-ready infrastructure as code. This role emphasizes reliability, performance, and collaboration with the engineering org.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of full-time DevOps experience.
• Deep experience with AWS/GCP, Terraform and Kubernetes.
• Ability to own planning and deployment of highly scalable systems.
• Familiar with AWS Aurora, Redshift, Kinesis, EC2, EKS, ECS, Redis, Elasticsearch, Prometheus, Grafana, VictoriaMetrics.

Responsibilities

• Build reliable, highly scalable architectures for large customers.
• Participate in roadmapping, architecture, and planning discussions.
• Produce production-ready infrastructure as code.
• Lead large projects from inception to production.
• Run production systems at scale.
• Participate in on-call rotation and infrastructure maintenance.

Skills

DevOps

AWS/GCP

Terraform

Kubernetes

Tools

AWS Aurora

Redshift

Kinesis

EC2

EKS

ECS

Redis

Elasticsearch

Prometheus

Grafana

VictoriaMetrics

Job description

Merge is the leading provider of agentic tools and customer-facing integrations for frontier LLMs, Fortune 500 organizations, and B2B SaaS companies.

Our platform offers two core products: Merge for Product, and Merge for Workforce. Merge for Product enables teams to ship AI features and integrations at massive scale. Merge for Workforce helps engineering teams govern AI access at the company level. Merge's enterprise-grade platform handles the entire integration lifecycle, from authentication and security to monitoring and maintenance. Thousands of companies trust Merge to accelerate product development, unblock sales, reduce customer churn, and save engineering resources—allowing them to focus on their core product.

Merge is seeking an experienced DevOps engineer to join our Foundations Engineering team. The right person will be a key player in driving new data and services strategies when it comes to infrastructure and AWS decisions for Merge, as well as being critical to delivering on re-architecture strategy as we scale the company.

What will you be doing?

• With reliability and scalability in mind, work with the rest of the engineering team to produce highly performant architectures that extend to some of our largest customers, reading and writing millions of rows per second across numerous 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 to production
• Run production systems at scale
• Participate in on-call rotation and infrastructure maintenance

What experience is required?

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

Compensation

• The cash compensation range for this role is $155,000-$185,000.
• Actual compensation packages are based on a wide array of factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, years & depth of experience, certifications. In addition to cash compensation, all employees receive an equity compensation package.

Benefits

• Unlimited PTO + 10 company holidays
• Pre-Tax commuter benefits
• 100% covered health, vision, and dental insurance
• 401K Plan
• $200 one-time home office stipend, and free dinner when working past 6pm
• Annual company off-sites and quarterly team events. Past locations have included: Nashville, Sonoma, Hudson Valley, San Diego