Circle is hiring a
Staff Reliability Engineer - Performance in United States

Summary

Circle is a financial technology company that aims to make value transfer as easy as digital data. As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will design, build, and maintain Circle's infrastructure estate on public cloud providers to support their growing worldwide customer base. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams and continuously learn in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.

Requirements

• 4+ years in DevOps or SRE roles, with a focus on tooling, automation, and infrastructure on a major public cloud provider
• Proficiency with coding and/or scripting with the following languages (Go, Python, Shell)
• At least 3 years of combined experience in building and maintaining CI/CD platforms and supporting agile engineering teams in building microservices

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain Circle’s infrastructure estate to meet the growing worldwide customer base on public cloud providers across multiple regions
• Ensure Circle’s products and core systems are running consistently, reasonably, and in a performant manner
• 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
• 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

Benefits

• Base Pay Range: $147,500 - $195,000 (for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer)
• Annual Bonus Target: 12.5%
• Base Pay Range: $172,500 - $227,500 (for a Staff Site Reliability Engineer)
• Annual Bonus Target: 15%
• Equity & Benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k))