Staff Infrastructure Engineer, Morpho Labs

• Adaptability and focus
• Thrives in a fast‑changing, remote‑first environment. Prioritizes simple, shippable solutions over complexity
• Ownership and autonomy
• Operates with first‑principles thinking. Takes end‑to‑end responsibility from design to steady‑state operations
• Clear async communication
• Writes crisp RFCs, runbooks, and incident reviews. Communicates trade‑offs and risk in plain language
• Team‑first mindset and low ego
• Optimizes for collective outcomes. Welcomes healthy debate, aligns, and commits
• Crypto curiosity
• Genuine interest in on‑chain systems and the surrounding ecosystem. Learns quickly from production feedback
• 10+ years building and scaling production infrastructure from startup to enterprise scale
• Proven leadership of initiatives that improved developer velocity and system reliability
• Deep expertise in event‑driven architectures and high‑performance data systems
• Strong cross‑functional influence without formal authority

Desirable

• We move fast on hard problems in a nascent market with no set playbook : navigating uncertainty is part of the job
• You’ll be challenged: anyone can question work and decisions must be justified
• We keep a high bar and match it with high support: we help each other unblock and share context openly, with low ego
• This role will enable Morpho to ship reliable, high‑scale products faster by building and operating a resilient, secure, and cost‑efficient infrastructure platform that empowers engineers and keeps tier‑1 services within agreed SLOs
• You'll architect multichain production infrastructure with Kubernetes and AWS to achieve ≥99.95% uptime while lowering unit costs via autoscaling and right‑sizing
• Build self‑service platform capabilities with CI/CD and GitOps to cut p50 deploy time from hours to minutes and enable safe, autonomous rollbacks
• Design and operate high‑throughput data systems with event‑driven pipelines to process billions of on‑chain events with sub‑minute latency
• Implement end‑to‑end observability with Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry to enable proactive alerting and rapid incident triage
• Establish zero‑trust IAM and secrets management with fine‑grained access controls and automated credential rotation to raise the security baseline
• Lead post‑mortems and drive RFC‑based architecture decisions to improve reliability, developer experience, and time to recovery across teams
• Mentor engineers across product and protocol teams to spread best practices in distributed systems, performance, and reliability engineering
• What Success Looks Like:
• In your first 30 days
• Understand Morpho’s services, deployment patterns, on‑chain integrations, and incident history. Set clear SLOs and a roadmap for platform improvements
• Ship quick wins in CI/CD or observability that remove friction for engineers and increase visibility on tier‑1 services
• By Month 4–6
• Deliver a self‑service deployment pipeline with progressive delivery and automated rollbacks. MTTR trending down. Tier‑1 services fully instrumented with actionable alerts
• Implement zero‑trust IAM foundations with auditable access and safe secrets handling. Document and socialize runbooks for high‑impact incidents
• By Month 12
• Demonstrate multi‑region readiness for a tier‑1 surface meeting RTO/RPO targets. Platform unit cost reduced by 20–30% while maintaining ≥99.9% SLO compliance
• Trusted partner to hiring managers and tech leads, influencing roadmaps and unblocking hard infrastructure and data challenges