About Merlin:
Merlin is a venture backed aerospace startup building a non-human pilot to enable both reduced crew and uncrewed flight. Backed by some of the world’s leading investors, Merlin is scaling alongside our customers to begin leveraging autonomy today to solve some of aviation’s biggest challenges.
About You:
You are a proactive and detail-oriented DevOps Engineer with a passion for building scalable, secure, and automated infrastructure. You thrive in fast-paced environments and enjoy collaborating across teams to streamline development workflows, improve CI/CD pipelines, and ensure system reliability. With a solid foundation in cloud platforms (such as AWS, Azure, or GCP), infrastructure as code (like Terraform or CloudFormation), and containerization tools (Docker, Kubernetes), you bring both technical depth and a strong problem-solving mindset to the table. You are driven by continuous improvement and eager to contribute to a culture of operational excellence.
The Role:
Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for our software development team.Automate and improve software build and deployment to our test systems, from software-in-the-loop all the way up to flight test aircraft.Support Database Management activities in the context of ML/NLPCoordinate between our software, flight test, and IT teams to ensure tools and infrastructure support all of our activities.Document and communicate work to encourage uptake of new tools around the team.
Qualifications:
BS in Computer Science or a related subject, or equivalent experience.5+ years of experience in DevOps roles.Demonstrable deep experience with Linux, Git, Docker, AWS, CI/CD tools, relational database management and configuration, infrastructure and configuration management tools like Terraform or Ansible.AWS and Azure experience.
Bonus:
Knowledge of networking and network security best practices. Experience supporting ML workflows.Experience managing Mysql, MariaDB, or PostgreSQL.Experience with software products that include a physical systems component, such as aircraft and robotics.
