Staff Infrastructure Engineer

Job Description
About Morpho

Morpho is a leading Decentralized Finance (DeFi) lending protocol that recently secured $50 million from Ribbit Capital, a16z crypto, Coinbase Ventures, Variant, Brevan Howard, Pantera, Blocktower, and 50 others to build an
open lending network giving anyone, anywhere, access to the best possible terms.
Morpho is experiencing explosive growth, with over $10 billion in
deposits on the network
, solidifying itself as the new standard for DeFi lending. Now, Morpho is scaling its team of contributors to establish itself as a cornerstone, not just of DeFi, but of a new internet-native financial system.

Our Mission

Morpho's mission is to power human ambition with open access to capital. Human ambition has no borders, but the capital to fuel it does. Today's financial system is closed and fragmented. No one sees all opportunities, most overpay, and some are excluded entirely. We believe capital should flow efficiently to where it's needed most — giving anyone, anywhere, access to the best possible terms.

Location

Paris or remote (from -5h GMT up to +2h GMT to ensure sufficient overlap with the rest of the team).

How We Work
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. More about our values:

Role

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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Job requirements

Must-have Skills

• 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.

Must‑have Experience

• 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.

• Experience with our tech stack is a plus:

• AWS: EKS, Aurora/DynamoDB, IAM/KMS

• Kubernetes: Helm, Karpenter, Docker/containerization
• GitOps: ArgoCD
• Observability: Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry
• Infrastructure-as-code: Terraform
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Docker, artifact management
• API: GraphQL, REST, Websockets
• Security: Vault/AWS Secrets Manager, Auth0/OIDC
• Blockchain Infra: SQD, Ponder, RPC Node providers (e.g., Alchemy)

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.

Ready to shape the future of finance?