Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Infra Ops

Salary: $152,500 - 205,000 per year Requirements:

• We seek 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Infrastructure Engineering, or a closely related software engineering role supporting production systems.
• We need deep, hands-on Kubernetes expertise, including designing, operating, securing, and troubleshooting production clusters and containerized workloads at scale.
• We value strong Terraform experience, including building reusable modules, managing state and environments, and delivering infrastructure changes through automated, reviewable workflows.
• We look for production software development experience in Go, Python, or JavaScript/TypeScript, with the ability to build maintainable backend services, tooling, and automation beyond simple scripts.
• We want a proven record of improving reliability, performance, scalability, or cost efficiency in distributed production systems.
• We expect experience with cloud infrastructure and core networking concepts such as IAM, DNS, load balancing, routing, service networking, and secure connectivity.
• We need strong observability and troubleshooting skills using metrics, logs, traces, alerting, and incident data to diagnose complex systems.
• We look for experience defining and operating against SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, incident management processes, postmortems, and disaster recovery practices.
• We prefer familiarity with CI/CD, GitOps or deployment automation, and safe rollout strategies such as canary or blue-green deployments.
• We value a security-minded approach to infrastructure and experience partnering with Security and engineering teams in regulated or highly available environments.
• We require clear written and verbal communication, strong ownership, and sound judgment to balance speed, risk, and operational excellence.
• Experience using AI-assisted tooling in engineering or operations workflows is a plus.

• We design, build, and operate Kubernetes platforms that deliver secure, highly available, and scalable foundations for critical production services across hybrid and public-cloud environments.
• We build infrastructure as code with Terraform, creating reusable modules, safe delivery workflows, and well-governed infrastructure changes.
• We develop backend services, internal tools, and operational automation in Go, Python, or JavaScript/TypeScript to remove manual work and improve the developer experience.
• We partner with engineering and product teams to understand workload requirements and design practical solutions for reliability, performance, capacity, security, and cost.
• We improve the production lifecycle through reliable CI/CD, deployment automation, progressive delivery, and clear operational ownership.
• We define and evolve observability practices across metrics, logs, traces, alerting, and dashboards so teams can detect issues early and troubleshoot effectively.
• We own production reliability by participating in on-call, leading incident response, performing root-cause analysis, and driving blameless postmortems and durable corrective actions.
• We establish and maintain reliability targets through meaningful SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, capacity planning, disaster-recovery testing, and resilience improvements.
• We embed security and compliance into platform operations, partnering with Security to protect infrastructure, workloads, and data while meeting applicable regulatory requirements.
• We apply AI-assisted and data-driven operational techniques to improve signal detection, reduce alert noise, accelerate root-cause analysis, and surface automation opportunities.
• We raise the bar for the team through thoughtful code reviews, documentation, knowledge sharing, and mentorship.
• We mentor and support team growth, fostering collaboration and scalability.

• AI
• Backend
• Blockchain
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• DevOps
• GitOps
• IAM
• Incident Management
• Support
• JavaScript
• Kubernetes
• Load Balancing
• Network
• Python
• Security
• Terraform
• TypeScript

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We are Circle, 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. Our platform includes the 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. We serve enterprises, financial institutions, and developers who rely on us to power trusted, internet-scale financial innovation. We value visibility, stability, high integrity, future-forward thinking, a multistakeholder mindset, mindfulness, and excellence. We offer a flexible work environment, a remote-friendly setup, and a compensation package with a base pay range of $152,500 to $205,000, determined by experience, skills, qualifications, and business needs. We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to an inclusive financial future built on transparency.

last updated 33 week of 2026