Software Engineer - Pipelines

Summary

Join CircleCI's Pipelines team and contribute to the reliable ingestion and orchestration of hundreds of thousands of pipelines daily. As a team member, you will own critical services, collaborate with a skilled team, and directly impact product success and user satisfaction. You will design and build new features, maintain existing services, and scale systems. This fully remote role requires 2+ years of experience in writing high-quality code for distributed systems, including full-stack development experience. Strong analytical, observability, and collaboration skills are essential. The role offers a competitive salary and the opportunity to work with a leading CI/CD platform.

Requirements

• 2+ years of professional experience writing high-quality, maintainable, and testable code for distributed systems, with part of this experience as a full stack developer
• Interest in learning and using Clojure on a day-to-day basis, with support available for those new to the language, and an interest in working with Go and JavaScript
• Strong observability skills, including setting up alerts, logs, and metrics, and using them to monitor and investigate issues
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to identify problems, propose solutions, and evaluate the pros and cons of different approaches
• Leadership skills, with the ability to guide and mentor team members, and potentially take on project leadership responsibilities
• Excellent collaboration skills, able to work effectively within and across teams

Responsibilities

• Design and build new features, simplify existing services, and scale our systems as we rapidly grow and evolve
• Write sustainable, testable, high-quality, high-performance code
• Support, maintain, and debug production microservices in a highly complex distributed system
• Champion a culture of observability and monitoring by using operational data to help your team improve the stability and performance of our systems
• Partner with members of a multi-functional team and other collaborators to set the direction of our product: learn about our business problems, explore solutions, weigh design tradeoffs, write effective user stories, and prioritize them to deliver maximum value in a balanced, incremental fashion

Benefits

• This is a fully remote role
• UK Pay range: £66,000.00 - £82,000.00
• Canada Base Pay Range $113,000 — $141,000 CAD
• United Kingdom Base Pay Range £66,000 — £82,000 GBP