$152,500 – $205,000
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 Senior Site Reliability Engineer to design and operate secure, scalable platform infrastructure for digital assets and blockchain workloads across hybrid and public cloud. This role suits experienced infrastructure engineers who want to own production reliability, build Kubernetes platforms, and mentor teams while working on high-stakes financial systems.
Our summary, not Circle’s wording. The full posting is on their site.
Skills this role names
- Business Metrics
- CI/CD
- Cloud Infrastructure
- DNS
- GitOps
- Go
- JavaScript
- Kubernetes
- Load Balancing
- Python
- Terraform
- TypeScript
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What they ask for
Required
- 5+ years in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering
- Deep hands-on Kubernetes expertise for production clusters
- Strong Terraform experience with reusable modules and state management
- Production software development in Go, Python, or JavaScript/TypeScript
- Demonstrated success improving reliability or performance of distributed systems
- Cloud infrastructure and networking knowledge including IAM, DNS, load balancing, routing
- Strong observability and troubleshooting skills with metrics, logs, traces, and alerting
- Experience defining and operating SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and incident management
- Clear written and verbal communication with strong ownership
Nice to have
- Experience with CI/CD, GitOps, or safe rollout strategies like canary deployments
- Security-minded approach with experience in regulated or high-availability environments
- Experience applying AI-assisted tooling to engineering or operations workflows