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We have built a flexible work environment where new ideas are encouraged and everyone is a stakeholder.\nWhat you’ll be responsible for:\nAs a Senior Site Reliability Engineer on Circle’s platform team, you’ll design, build, and operate the secure, scalable platform infrastructure behind critical digital-assets, AI, and application workloads. You will bring an engineering mindset to production operations: writing and maintaining services and automation, developing reliable Kubernetes platforms, and using Terraform to make infrastructure repeatable, auditable, and easy to evolve.\nYou’ll work closely with platform, product, and application engineering teams to translate workload requirements into resilient technical designs across hybrid and public-cloud environments. This role is for an experienced SRE or infrastructure engineer who enjoys solving hard distributed-systems problems, taking ownership of production outcomes, and raising the reliability, performance, security, and cost-effectiveness of the systems our customers depend on.\nWhat you'll work on:\nDesign, build, and operate Kubernetes platforms that provide secure, highly available, and scalable foundations for critical production services across hybrid and public-cloud environments.\n\nBuild infrastructure as code with Terraform, creating reusable modules, safe delivery workflows, and well-governed infrastructure changes.\n\nDevelop backend services, internal tools, and operational automation in Go, Python, or JavaScript/TypeScript to eliminate manual work and improve the developer experience.\n\nPartner with engineering and product teams to understand workload requirements and design pragmatic solutions for reliability, performance, capacity, security, and cost.\n\nImprove the production lifecycle through reliable CI/CD, deployment automation, progressive delivery, and clear operational ownership.\n\nDefine and evolve observability practices across metrics, logs, traces, alerting, and dashboards so teams can detect issues early and troubleshoot effectively.\n\nOwn production reliability by participating in on-call, leading incident response, performing root-cause analysis, and driving blameless postmortems and durable corrective actions.\n\nEstablish and maintain reliability targets through meaningful SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, capacity planning, disaster-recovery testing, and resilience improvements.\n\nEmbed security and compliance into platform operations, partnering with Security to protect infrastructure, workloads, and data while meeting applicable regulatory requirements.\n\nApply AI-assisted and data-driven operational techniques to improve signal detection, reduce alert noise, accelerate root-cause analysis, and surface opportunities for automation.\n\nRaise the bar for the team through thoughtful code reviews, documentation, knowledge sharing, and mentorship.\n\nMentor and support team growth, fostering collaboration and scalability.\n\nWhat you’ll bring to Circle (not all required):\n5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Infrastructure Engineering, or a closely related software engineering role supporting production systems.\n\nDeep, hands-on Kubernetes expertise: designing, operating, securing, and troubleshooting production clusters and containerized workloads at scale.\n\nStrong Terraform experience, including authoring reusable modules, managing state and environments, and delivering infrastructure changes through reviewable, automated workflows.\n\nProduction software-development experience in Go, Python, or JavaScript/TypeScript, with the ability to build maintainable backend services, tooling, and automation-not only scripts.\n\nDemonstrated success improving the reliability, performance, scalability, or cost efficiency of distributed systems in production.\n\nExperience with cloud infrastructure and core networking concepts, including IAM, DNS, load balancing, routing, service networking, and secure connectivity.\n\nStrong observability and troubleshooting skills using metrics, logs, traces, alerting, and incident data to diagnose complex systems.\n\nExperience defining and operating against SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, incident-management processes, postmortems, and disaster-recovery practices.\n\nFamiliarity with CI/CD, GitOps or deployment automation, and safe rollout strategies such as canary or blue-green deployments.\n\nA security-minded approach to infrastructure and a track record of partnering effectively with Security and engineering teams in regulated or high-availability environments.\n\nClear written and verbal communication, strong ownership, and the judgment to balance speed, risk, and operational excellence.\n\nExperience applying AI-assisted tooling to engineering or operations workflows is a plus.\n\nCircle 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.\nStarting 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.\nBase Pay Range: $152,500 - $205,000We 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.\nShould you require accommodations or assistance in our interview process because of a disability, please reach out to  for support. 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