About the role
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
About Merge
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 three core products: Merge Unified, which enables businesses to add hundreds of integrations to their products with a single API; Merge Agent Handler, which empowers AI agents with secure access to thousands of third-party tools; and Merge Gateway that provides access to all LLMs through a single API.
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 backed by $75 million in funding from Accel, NEA, and Addition. Merge was founded in 2020 by Shensi Ding and Gil Feig and is proudly built in San Francisco, New York City, and Berlin.
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Job details
Salary
$155,000 - $185,000
Location
Remote
Funding
Total raised
$75M
Last stage
Series B
Investors
Founders
Shensi Ding
CEO and co-founder
What happens next.
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
A meeting lands on your calendar
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.