Circle is hiring a
Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Summary

The job is for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Circle, a financial technology company. The role involves designing, building, and maintaining Circle's infrastructure estate, supporting multiple development teams with an agile CI/CD platform, automating operational tasks, managing Kubernetes clusters, driving forward blockchain infrastructure, participating in on-call rotation, planning disaster recovery scenarios, collaborating with the Security team, and mentoring team members.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain Circle’s infrastructure estate to meet the growing worldwide customer base on public cloud providers across multiple regions
• Support multiple development teams with an agile, responsive CI/CD platform to deliver high-quality builds with measurable performance and quality
• Build, maintain, improve, scale, and secure cloud infrastructure and resources using IaC tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible)
• Automate operational tasks via Go, Python, and serverless solutions (AWS Lambda, Kubernetes Jobs)
• Design, manage, and monitor Kubernetes clusters for multiple production workloads
• Driving forward our blockchain infrastructure by creating and managing blockchain nodes across a wide variety of blockchains that includes Algorand, Ethereum, Hedera, Flow, Solana, Stellar, Tron
• Participate in an on-call rotation to mitigate disruption for any production systems and conduct root cause analysis
• Plan and test disaster recovery scenarios for a highly available microservices architecture
• Collaborate with the Security team to create and maintain security-focused tools and frameworks and exert a top-class security posture
• Engaging and mentoring team members and helping grow and scale the team