Staff SRE - Cloud Infrastructure
Company Overview:
Circle is a pioneering fintech organization at the forefront of the evolving digital economy. Enabling seamless global value exchange akin to digital data, Circle facilitates opportunities for enhanced economic growth and inclusion. Through innovative infrastructure, including USDC, a digital dollar, Circle empowers businesses, institutions, and developers to capitalize on the transformational intersection of money and technology.
About Our Team:
Circle champions transparency and resilience, expanding into diverse global markets with a focus on efficiency and agility. Upholding values of Multistakeholder, Mindfulness, Excellence, and Integrity, our remote-working environment nurtures collaboration, diversity, and innovation, promoting a culture where novel ideas thrive and every individual contributes to our success.
Primary Responsibilities:
As a pivotal member of Circle as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will be instrumental in designing, building, and optimizing Circle’s infrastructure across public cloud platforms to support the growing international customer base. Leveraging your expertise, you will ensure the consistent and robust performance of Circle’s products and core systems. This role offers a unique chance to enhance your skills, engage with cross-functional teams, and continuously learn within a dynamic environment fostering innovation and teamwork.
Key Job Duties:
- Provide agile and responsive CI/CD platform support to multiple development teams, enabling high-quality builds with measureable performance and reliability.
- Develop, enhance, and secure cloud infrastructure using IaC tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, and Ansible.
- Automate operational workflows through tools like Go, Python, and serverless solutions (AWS Lambda, Kubernetes).
- Manage and monitor Kubernetes clusters for diverse production workloads effectively.
- Advance blockchain infrastructure by overseeing and managing blockchain nodes across various networks including Algorand, Ethereum, Solana, etc.
- Participate in an on-call rotation to swiftly address system disruptions and conduct root cause analyses.
- Strategize and test disaster recovery plans for a robust microservices architecture.
- Collaborate with the Security team to uphold a top-tier security posture and develop security-focused tools and protocols.
- Mentor team members and contribute to team growth and scalability initiatives.
Qualifications for Senior Site Reliability Engineer:
- Minimum 4 years in DevOps or SRE roles, focused on tooling, automation, and infrastructure within major public cloud platforms.
- Strong proficiency in coding and scripting with languages like Go, Python, and Shell.
- Experience in building/maintaining CI/CD platforms, supporting agile engineering teams, deploying microservices, Docker images, Kubernetes clusters, and diverse database technologies.
- Familiarity with common deployment strategies, distributed blockchain systems, data warehousing, networking concepts, and monitoring tools.
- Skilled in observability, troubleshooting, and performance optimization, with excellent communication abilities.
Additional Qualifications for Staff Site Reliability Engineer:
- Minimum 7 years in related roles with in-depth experience in system design, architectural leadership, API design, cloud services, containers, Kubernetes, SQL databases, and maintaining high coding standards.
- Demonstrated ability to lead technically, embody coding best practices, and ensure outstanding code quality.
Compensation and Benefits Information:
- Senior Site Reliability Engineer:
- Base Pay Range: $147,500 - $195,000
- Annual Bonus Target: 12.5%
- Staff Site Reliability Engineer:
- Base Pay Range: $172,500 - $227,500
- Annual Bonus Target: 15%
- Additional Benefits: Equity, comprehensive medical, dental, vision coverage, 401(k) plan, discretionary vacation policy, 10 days of sick leave, and 11 paid holidays per year.
Circle fosters a diverse, inclusive workforce and upholds equal opportunity principles, valuing candidates’ varied backgrounds and perspectives. The organization does not discriminate based on race, religion, gender, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability. In certain locations, Circle participates in the E-Verify Program as required by law.
