Senior Site Reliability Engineer Infra Ops

Circle (NYSE: CRCL) is one of the worlds leading internet financial platform companies building the foundation of a more open global economy through digital assets payment applications and programmable blockchain infrastructure. Circles platform includes the worlds largest regulated stablecoin network anchored by USDC Circle Payments Network for global money movement and Arc an enterprise-grade blockchain designed to become the Economic OS for the internet. Enterprises financial institutions and developers use Circle to power trusted internet-scale financial innovation. Learn more at .

What youll be part of:

Circle is committed to visibility and stability in everything we do. As we grow as an organization were expanding into some of the worlds strongest jurisdictions. Speed and efficiency are motivators for our success and our employees live by our company values: High Integrity Future Forward Multistakeholder Mindful and Driven by Excellence. We have built a flexible work environment where new ideas are encouraged and everyone is a stakeholder.

What youll be responsible for:

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer on Circles platform team youll 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.

Youll 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.

What youll work on:

• Design build and operate Kubernetes platforms that provide secure highly available and scalable foundations for critical production services across hybrid and public-cloud environments.

• Build infrastructure as code with Terraform creating reusable modules safe delivery workflows and well-governed infrastructure changes.

• Develop backend services internal tools and operational automation in Go Python or JavaScript/TypeScript to eliminate manual work and improve the developer experience.

• Partner with engineering and product teams to understand workload requirements and design pragmatic solutions for reliability performance capacity security and cost.

• Improve the production lifecycle through reliable CI/CD deployment automation progressive delivery and clear operational ownership.

• Define and evolve observability practices across metrics logs traces alerting and dashboards so teams can detect issues early and troubleshoot effectively.

• Own production reliability by participating in on-call leading incident response performing root-cause analysis and driving blameless postmortems and durable corrective actions.

• Establish and maintain reliability targets through meaningful SLIs SLOs error budgets capacity planning disaster-recovery testing and resilience improvements.

• Embed security and compliance into platform operations partnering with Security to protect infrastructure workloads and data while meeting applicable regulatory requirements.

• Apply AI-assisted and data-driven operational techniques to improve signal detection reduce alert noise accelerate root-cause analysis and surface opportunities for automation.

• Raise the bar for the team through thoughtful code reviews documentation knowledge sharing and mentorship.

• Mentor and support team growth fostering collaboration and scalability.

What youll bring to Circle (not all required):

• 5 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering DevOps Infrastructure Engineering or a closely related software engineering role supporting production systems.

• Deep hands-on Kubernetes expertise: designing operating securing and troubleshooting production clusters and containerized workloads at scale.

• Strong Terraform experience including authoring reusable modules managing state and environments and delivering infrastructure changes through reviewable automated workflows.

• Production software-development experience in Go Python or JavaScript/TypeScript with the ability to build maintainable backend services tooling and automationnot only scripts.

• Demonstrated success improving the reliability performance scalability or cost efficiency of distributed systems in production.

• Experience with cloud infrastructure and core networking concepts including IAM DNS load balancing routing service networking and secure connectivity.

• Strong observability and troubleshooting skills using metrics logs traces alerting and incident data to diagnose complex systems.

• Experience defining and operating against SLIs SLOs error budgets incident-management processes postmortems and disaster-recovery practices.

• Familiarity with CI/CD GitOps or deployment automation and safe rollout strategies such as canary or blue-green deployments.

• A security-minded approach to infrastructure and a track record of partnering effectively with Security and engineering teams in regulated or high-availability environments.

• Clear written and verbal communication strong ownership and the judgment to balance speed risk and operational excellence.

• Experience applying AI-assisted tooling to engineering or operations workflows is a plus.

Circle 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.

Starting 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.

We 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.

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