Engineering Manager, Infrastructure
at Merge API
San Francisco, United States
Merge enables B2B companies to add hundreds of integrations to their products, making it easy to access and sync their customers' data. We offer Unified APIs that provide normalized data across key software categories, including accounting, HRIS, ATS, CRM, file storage, and ticketing. Thousands of companies trust Merge to power their integrations, enabling them to unblock sales, reduce customer churn, accelerate time to market for new products, and save engineering costs and resources.
As a core component for the future of modern B2B AI infrastructure, Merge is building the data integration layer that powers the next generation of AI products and companies. By solving the complex challenges of data access and normalization, Merge accelerates the development and deployment of AI solutions while ensuring the highest standards of security and performance.
Who are we looking for?
Merge is looking for a driven Engineering Manager to lead our Infrastructure team. This team is responsible for building and scaling the systems that power Merge’s integration platform – ensuring security, performance, and reliability at scale. From architecting distributed systems to optimizing developer tooling and infrastructure, you’ll create the foundation that enables product teams to move fast while maintaining world-class stability and resilience.
What you will do:
- Lead and grow a high-performing infrastructure engineering team, creating a culture of excellence, reliability, and scalability
- Own infrastructure strategy and execution, including system design, platform reliability, observability, and deployment practices
- Partner cross-functionally with product, engineering, and leadership to align infrastructure priorities with company goals
- Drive roadmap planning for infrastructure initiatives around scalability, performance, security, and developer velocity
- Ensure best practices in cloud architecture, system resilience, and monitoring are followed across engineering
The Ideal candidate will have:
- 2–4+ years managing and hiring engineers, with previous hands-on experience as an IC
- Track record of building and managing distributed systems, developer platforms, or large-scale infrastructure
- Experience with technologies such as AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Postgres, SQL, and observability tooling
- Ability to balance short-term needs with long-term technical strategy in a fast-paced environment
- Strong communication and organizational skills to align cross-functional priorities
Compensation
- The cash compensation range for this role is $200,000-$245,000
- 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
Merge on the Rise:
Forbes Next Billion Dollar Startups 2023
G2 Fastest Growing Products 2024
Benefits
- Unlimited PTO + 10 company holidays
- 100% covered health, vision, and dental insurance
- 401K Plan
- Free dinner when working past 7pm
- Annual company offsites and quarterly team events. Past locations have included: Nashville, Sonoma, and the Hudson Valley
Merge is an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other protected class.