Staff Infrastructure Engineer

## About Morpho Morpho is a leading Decentralized Finance (DeFi) lending protocol that raised $70 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.

## 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.

## 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.

Morpho Labs develops Morpho, a next-generation decentralized lending protocol on Ethereum and Base that enables permissionless, non-custodial borrowing and lending of crypto assets with customizable markets. It powers innovative products like Bitcoin-backed loans and serves as open infrastructure for global liquidity at optimal terms.