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About the Role

Circle is committed to visibility and stability, expanding into strong jurisdictions with a focus on speed and efficiency. Employees embody company values: High Integrity, Future Forward, Multistakeholder, Mindful, and Driven by Excellence. The company fosters a flexible work environment that encourages new ideas and treats everyone as a stakeholder.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the strategy for data reliability, quality, and operational excellence across the organization.
• Shape how Circle builds and trusts its data ecosystem.
• Establish company-wide standards for data quality, contracts, and governance.
• Design scalable reliability and observability frameworks.
• Institutionalize incident management practices that promote accountability and continuous improvement.
• Influence platform and architectural decisions to ensure long-term scalability, reduce systemic risk, and eliminate classes of failure.
• Guide cross-team prioritization of reliability investments.
• Define best-in-class data engineering practices.
• Lead complex, high-impact initiatives in ambiguous environments, driving alignment, mitigating risk, and delivering robust, scalable data solutions.
• Define and implement organization-wide data quality standards, including data contracts, SLAs, and governance frameworks.
• Design and scale reliability and observability frameworks, including SLI/SLO models, lineage tracking, monitoring, and alerting patterns.
• Establish and evolve incident management practices, including severity models, escalation paths, on-call structures, and blameless postmortems.
• Develop and standardize data engineering SDLC practices, including testing strategies, CI/CD, versioning, and reusable frameworks.
• Drive cross-functional prioritization of reliability initiatives, balancing technical debt, operational health, and product delivery.
• Lead ecosystem-wide platform improvements, identifying architectural gaps, reducing fragmentation, and influencing build vs buy decisions.
• Own and deliver complex, high-impact data initiatives, aligning stakeholders, mitigating risks, and driving scalable solutions.

Requirements

• Extensive experience designing and operating scalable data platforms with a focus on reliability, quality, and observability.
• Experience leveraging AI tools and methodologies to design and implement solutions.
• Deep expertise in data architecture, including data modeling, pipeline design, and distributed data systems.
• Proven ability to define and implement data quality frameworks, including SLAs, data contracts, and governance standards.
• Strong experience establishing SLI/SLO frameworks, monitoring, and alerting for large-scale data systems.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex, cross-team technical initiatives and drive alignment across stakeholders.
• Experience defining and scaling engineering best practices, including testing, CI/CD, and development standards for data systems.
• Experience building or evolving data platforms in high-growth or highly regulated environments (e.g., fintech, payments, crypto).
• Familiarity with modern data tooling ecosystems, including orchestration, transformation, metadata, and observability platforms.
• Experience with technologies such as Astronomer (Airflow), BigQuery, dbt, Dataplex, Kubernetes, Python, or Go.
• Track record of influencing platform strategy, including build vs buy decisions and long-term architectural evolution.

Skills

• Data reliability
• Data quality
• Operational excellence
• Data governance
• Scalable reliability frameworks
• Observability frameworks
• Incident management
• Platform architecture
• AI tools and methodologies
• Data architecture
• Data modeling
• Pipeline design
• Distributed data systems
• Data quality frameworks
• SLAs
• Data contracts
• SLI/SLO frameworks
• Monitoring
• Alerting
• Cross-team technical leadership
• Engineering best practices
• Testing strategies
• CI/CD
• Versioning
• Reusable frameworks
• Fintech
• Payments
• Crypto
• Orchestration platforms
• Transformation platforms
• Metadata platforms
• Astronomer (Airflow)
• BigQuery
• dbt
• Dataplex
• Kubernetes
• Python
• Go

Location

• Remote

Experience Level

• Extensive experience
• Deep expertise
• Strong experience
• Senior technical leader

Salary/Compensations

• Base Pay Range: $225,000 - $290,000

About the Company

• Circle (NYSE: CRCL) is one of the world’s leading internet financial platform companies.
• Building the foundation of a more open, global economy through digital assets, payment applications, and programmable blockchain infrastructure.
• Circle’s platform includes the world’s largest regulated stablecoin network anchored by USDC, Circle Payments Network for global money movement, and Arc, an enterprise-grade blockchain.
• Arc is designed to become the Economic OS for the internet.
• Enterprises, financial institutions, and developers use Circle to power trusted, internet-scale financial innovation.
• Circle is on a mission to create an inclusive financial future, with transparency at its core.
• Circle believes in a future where digital dollars work securely around the world to create a more prosperous global economy for everyone.
• Created USDC, a digital currency backed by the US dollar and always redeemable 1:1.
• Works closely with regulators to ensure USDC guides and surpasses stablecoin standards.
• Company values: Multistakeholder, Mindful, Driven by excellence, and High integrity.
• Fosters an environment where people can thrive and grow, be challenged and learn constantly, valuing diversity.
• Community members from around the world recognize Circle as a top place to work.

Equal Opportunity

• We are an equal opportunity employer.
• We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, or any other protected status required by the laws in the locations where we hire.
• Circle participates in the E-Verify Program in certain locations, as required by law.
• Should you require accommodations or assistance in our interview process because of a disability, please reach out to accommodations@circle.com for support.