Staff Infrastructure Engineer
Location
Paris or remote (from -5h GMT up to +2h GMT to ensure sufficient overlap with the rest of the team).
Role
The mission of this role is to own Morpho's infrastructure platform end-to-end so the engineering org can ship faster, operate safely at institutional reliability standards, and scale across chains and regions without reliability or indexing bottlenecks.
Responsibilities
Architect and scale production infrastructure with pragmatic patterns and automation to achieve high availability and predictable performance under $10B+ deposits.
Build self-service infrastructure with developer tooling and paved paths to reduce deployment time, unblock engineers, and increase deploy frequency.
Design and evolve high-performance data and indexing systems with scalable architectures to process billions of on-chain events with sub-minute latency.
Establish GitOps-based deployment practices with progressive rollouts and safe rollback mechanisms to reduce MTTR and increase operational confidence.
Implement end-to-end observability with metrics, tracing, and alerting to proactively detect issues and meet agreed SLOs.
Lead incident management and post-mortems with clear written follow-ups to improve reliability, learning, and long-term system health.
Drive infrastructure strategy through written RFCs, infrastructure-as-code standards, and cross-team alignment to ensure infrastructure decisions map to product and business impact.
What Success Looks Like
First 30 days
Build deep context on Morpho's on-chain deployment patterns, core services, and current infra pain points. Align on reliability and developer velocity targets, and document an initial infrastructure strategy and priorities. Set a rhythm for incident reviews and architecture discussions.
First 4 months
Deliver first visible improvements to developer velocity (CI/CD, deployment workflow, tooling) and reliability (alerting coverage, clearer on-call and incident process). Reduce the biggest bottlenecks blocking product delivery, including critical indexing and data pipeline constraints. Put in place foundations for secure access (IAM, secrets) and consistent infra practices (IaC and GitOps).
In 1 year
Achieve multi-region readiness for at least one tier-1 surface with tested failover meeting agreed RTO/RPO. Improve developer productivity meaningfully — faster deploys, fewer pages, smoother operations — while meeting SLOs. Reduce platform unit costs through measured optimization and a strong, simple operating model.
Must-have Experience & Skills
10+ years building and scaling production infrastructure, with clear ownership of reliability and delivery outcomes.
Proven experience leading infrastructure transformations that improved developer velocity and system reliability.
Strong systems thinking and ability to translate infrastructure decisions into clear trade-offs and business impact.
Calm under pressure, with experience leading incident response and post-mortems for high-stakes outages.
Clear async communication: writes crisp RFCs, runbooks, and incident reviews that others can execute without meetings.
Thrives in fast-changing, ambiguous environments where the playbook doesn't exist yet and priorities shift quickly.
High ownership and autonomy — acts without waiting for permission, takes responsibility for outcomes not just outputs.
Team-first mindset: low ego, shares credit, puts the mission above personal goals.
Humble.
Perks & benefits
We design benefits around deep work and growth, so you can do the best work of your career. Expect fair, top-tier compensation, real flexibility, time together in Paris, great health coverage, and support to keep learning.
Equal opportunity
We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and hire based on talent, potential, and values alignment.
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