Remote Remote (Country) Employment $130,000 - $140,000 USD per year

Circle is hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer

About the Role

The role involves designing, implementing, and maintaining reliable systems that support large-scale services. The engineer will work across development and operations to improve uptime, performance, and resilience using modern DevOps practices and cloud technologies.

Responsibilities

  • Design and manage scalable, fault-tolerant systems
  • Implement proactive monitoring and alerting strategies
  • Respond to and resolve production incidents efficiently
  • Drive automation of operational workflows
  • Collaborate with development teams on service design
  • Optimize system performance and resource utilization
  • Maintain comprehensive documentation of systems and procedures
  • Support deployment pipelines and release processes
  • Conduct root cause analysis for critical incidents
  • Enforce security and compliance standards in infrastructure
  • Participate in on-call rotations
  • Evaluate and integrate new technologies
  • Improve disaster recovery and business continuity plans
  • Monitor cloud spending and optimize costs
  • Ensure high availability across distributed systems
  • Develop and maintain runbooks for common scenarios
  • Lead post-incident reviews and follow-up actions
  • Promote reliability best practices across teams
  • Contribute to capacity planning initiatives
  • Work with containerized environments and orchestration tools
  • Support global infrastructure with low-latency requirements
  • Implement observability solutions across services
  • Troubleshoot complex system-level issues
  • Foster a culture of operational excellence
  • Contribute to system architecture discussions

Nice to Have

  • Master’s degree in a technical field
  • Experience with global payment systems
  • Background in fintech or financial infrastructure
  • Contributions to open-source projects
  • Certifications in cloud or systems engineering
  • Experience with regulatory compliance frameworks
  • Knowledge of cryptography and secure systems design
  • Familiarity with blockchain technologies
  • Leadership experience in technical teams
  • Public speaking or conference participation

Compensation

Competitive salary and benefits package

Work Arrangement

Hybrid work model with flexibility for remote and office-based collaboration

Team

Collaborative engineering environment focused on system reliability and scalable infrastructure

Why This Role Matters

This position plays a critical part in ensuring the reliability and security of systems that handle high-value transactions and sensitive data. The engineer will help maintain trust and performance at scale.

Technology Stack

AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana, Docker, GitHub, Jenkins, Vault, PostgreSQL, Redis

Growth Opportunities

Engineers are encouraged to lead projects, mentor peers, and contribute to strategic planning. Career paths include technical specialization and leadership roles.

Team Culture

The team values transparency, accountability, and continuous improvement. Regular retrospectives and knowledge-sharing sessions are integral to operations.

Onboarding Process

New hires undergo a structured onboarding program including system walkthroughs, shadowing, and hands-on labs to ensure rapid integration.

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Circle is building the world’s leading all-in-one platform for online communities. We make it possible for creators, coaches, educators, and businesses to bring together their audience with engaging discussions, live streams, events, chat, courses, and payments — all in one place, all under their own brand.
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Posted 2 hours ago