About the Role
Circle is building the foundation of a more open, global economy through digital assets, payment applications, and programmable blockchain infrastructure. The Site Reliability Engineer will build and maintain shared platform capabilities, common libraries, and infrastructure to help teams ship secure, reliable software quickly. This role involves operating scalable microservices, ensuring reliable APIs, and improving the software delivery experience.
Responsibilities
- Build and operate scalable microservices, platform capabilities, and shared engineering libraries.
- Design, deploy, and maintain secure, reliable cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes-based services.
- Improve CI/CD pipelines, developer workflows, and software delivery automation across engineering teams.
- Engineer and operate Circle’s autonomous coding-agent orchestration platform and AI-enabled developer tooling.
- Implement observability, monitoring, incident response, and operational best practices for production systems and AI services.
- Partner with Product and Engineering teams to design resilient architectures and improve platform reliability.
- Continuously improve security, access controls, auditability, and cost optimization across cloud infrastructure and AI-powered workflows.
Requirements
- 3–6 years of professional software development experience using languages such as Golang, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, or Rust.
- Hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native applications on AWS or GCP, including Kubernetes-based infrastructure.
- Experience engineering and operating production workflow orchestration systems, developer platforms, or autonomous agent solutions.
- Experience integrating AI capabilities through APIs, SDKs, or workflow tooling while applying operational guardrails such as observability, access controls, auditability, evaluation, monitoring, and human approval where appropriate.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, RESTful API design, SQL database design, schema modeling, and query optimization.
- Demonstrated commitment to writing clean, maintainable, well-tested code that supports continuous delivery and operational excellence.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
Skills
- Golang
- Java
- JavaScript/TypeScript
- Python
- Rust
- AWS
- GCP
- Kubernetes
- AI
- APIs
- SDKs
- Distributed systems
- RESTful API design
- SQL database design
- Schema modeling
- Query optimization
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Remote
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 3-6 years
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
Salary/Compensations
- $152,500 - $205,000
Benefits
- Flexible work environment
- Accommodations for interview process due to disability
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 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 committed to visibility and stability in everything we do.
- Circle is on a mission to create an inclusive financial future, with transparency at our core.
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. We respect your privacy and will connect with you separately from our interview process to accommodate your needs.
