$195,000 – $257,500
Listed on Circle’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.
What this role is
Circle is hiring a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to design, build, and operate the distributed infrastructure powering their blockchain platform at scale. This role suits experienced engineers who excel at managing complex systems, automating operations, and mentoring teams while working across multiple cloud environments and blockchain networks.
Our summary, not Circle’s wording. The full posting is on their site.
Skills this role names
- CI/CD
- DNS
- Ethereum
- Go
- Helm
- Infrastructure as Code
- Kubernetes
- Pulumi
- Python
- Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
- Terraform
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What they ask for
Required
- 6+ years of Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering experience
- Experience operating and troubleshooting blockchain nodes and distributed systems in production
- Deep expertise in Kubernetes internals and tuning for large-scale workloads
- Deep expertise in blockchain protocols and their infrastructure demands
- Proficiency with Terraform or Pulumi and cloud networking fundamentals
- Proficiency in Go or Python for platform automation and infrastructure tooling
- Experience managing SQL databases and stateful production services
- Proven technical leadership in complex distributed systems architecture
- Experience mentoring engineers and scaling SRE best practices across teams
Nice to have
- Passion for crypto and blockchain infrastructure
- Experience building AI-enabled infrastructure tooling or agentic workflows
- Familiarity with MCP servers and responsible use of generative AI for engineering productivity
- Experience with observability and chaos engineering techniques