Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Overview

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. Learn more at circle.com.

What You’ll Be Part Of

Circle is committed to visibility and stability in everything we do. As we grow as an organization, we’re expanding into some of the world’s strongest jurisdictions. Speed and efficiency are motivators for our success and our employees live by our company values: High Integrity, Future Forward, Multistakeholder, Mindful, and Driven by Excellence. We have built a flexible work environment where new ideas are encouraged and everyone is a stakeholder.

What You’ll Be Responsible For

As a Site Reliability Engineer at Circle, you’ll harness AI-powered insights to build and maintain our production infrastructure estate, enabling us to serve a rapidly expanding global customer base across multiple public cloud regions. You’ll apply your experience, technical expertise, and AI-enabled solutions to keep Circle’s products and core systems running consistently, reliably, and with top-tier performance. In a fun, collaborative, and ever-evolving environment, you’ll have ample opportunities to develop new skills, partner with diverse and cross-functional teams across the organization, and stay on the cutting edge of technology.

What You’ll Work On

• Empower agile development teams with a high-performance CI/CD pipeline, ensuring fast, high-quality releases with measurable performance and quality metrics.
• Design, maintain, and secure cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code tools like Terraform and Crossplane.
• Automate operational tasks using Go, Python, and serverless solutions (AWS Lambda, Kubernetes Jobs).
• Manage and monitor Kubernetes clusters for multiple production workloads.
• Develop and maintain blockchain infrastructure, managing nodes across Ethereum, Solana, Arbitrum, Base, Avalanche, and others.
• Ensure system reliability and security by participating in on-call rotations, troubleshooting disruptions, conducting root cause analysis, and collaborating with Security teams on security-focused tools and frameworks.
• Plan, test, and implement disaster recovery strategies for a highly available microservices architecture.
• Leverage AI-powered solutions for managing infrastructure, analyzing logs, detecting anomalies, capacity planning, maintaining performance, and optimizing performance.
• Mentor and support team growth, fostering collaboration and scalability.

Team Structure and Role Levels

Individual Contributor Hierarchy

• Sr. Site Reliability Engineer (III)
• Staff Site Reliability Engineer (IV)

What You’ll Bring To Circle (not All Required)

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (III)

• 4+ years in DevOps or SRE roles
• 3+ years in CI/CD platform development and microservices support
• Strong observability, problem-solving, and performance optimization skills in complex, distributed systems
• Hands‑on experience with Blue‑Green, Canary, and A/B Testing deployment strategies for services and databases; understanding of multi‑region and multi‑cloud architectures
• Proficiency in Go, Python, and Shell
• Proficiency in AI tools utilization to support daily activities
• Excellent communication skills—able to break down technical concepts and foster collaboration
• Observability, troubleshooting, and performance optimization skills in complex, distributed systems
• Experience with:
  • Kubernetes clusters at scale, containerization, and Helm charts
  • Modern CI/CD platforms with complex gates and workflows
  • Distributed blockchain systems and blockchain full nodes
  • Networking (routing, DNS, load balancing, edge networking)
  • APM, RUM, monitoring, and telemetry tools
  • Database technologies (PostgreSQL, Redis, OpenSearch)
  • Migrating and transforming large, complex datasets from diverse sources, structures, and formats
  • Data warehousing (Apache Airflow, AWS DMS, Snowflake)
  • IaC with Terraform or Crossplane for cloud deployments
  • AI tools (GitHub Copilot, Gemini, and ChatGPT) for productivity and code quality
  • Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI applications in software development and operations

Staff Site Reliability Engineer (IV)

All the requirements of Site Reliability Engineer (III), and

• 7+ years in DevOps or SRE roles
• 5+ years in CI/CD platform development and microservices support
• Understanding macro activities and how to subdivide them, maintaining the focus
• Familiarity with multi‑region and multi‑cloud architectures and their implementations

Compensation

Circle is on a mission to create an inclusive financial future, with transparency at our core. We consider a wide variety of elements when crafting our compensation ranges and total compensation packages.

• Base Pay Range: $152,500 – $205,000

Starting pay is determined by various factors, including but not limited to: relevant experience, skill set, qualifications, and other business and organizational needs. Please note that compensation ranges may differ for candidates in other locations.

Equal Opportunity Statement

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. Additionally, Circle participates in the E‑Verify Program in certain locations, as required by law.

Accommodations

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 your interview process to accommodate your needs.