About the role

Role Overview

Circle is hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to help scale its platform with confidence. You’ll ensure systems remain fast, reliable, and secure as demand grows, working in a highly impactful, hands-on role.

Responsibilities

First responder for system incidents and outages; help maintain high availability and performance
Own and evolve monitoring, alerting, and log management systems
Manage and optimize database infrastructure, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, and Redis
Maintain and improve server infrastructure and deployment pipelines
Collaborate with engineering teams to build scalable and resilient systems
Contribute to internal SRE tooling and automation efforts

Requirements

Strong alignment with Circle’s values
Fluent English (CEFR C2 / ILR 5)
Deep expertise in AWS and Kubernetes
5+ years in Site Reliability, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering
Proven experience scaling production systems in a high-growth environment (startup or similar)
Practical day-to-day experience using AI tools to improve engineering productivity/outcomes (e.g., copilots, LLM debugging, automation, documentation workflows)
Helped scale an early-stage product to 1M+ monthly active users
Experience managing incident response and production outages
Hands-on database operations and optimization
Familiarity with observability: monitoring and logging best practices
Based in North or South America (AMER region)

Bonus

Experience with SOC 2 compliance or building secure infrastructure
Experience with ClickHouse or similar technologies

Compensation & Benefits

$130,000–$140,000 USD/year
U.S.-benchmarked global compensation, equity with ongoing refresh grants
35 days of paid time off annually
Remote-only with two in-person retreats per year

About Circle

Circle builds an all-in-one platform for online communities, helping creators, educators, businesses, and coaches run discussions, live streams, events, chat, courses, and payments under their own brand. The company operates as a fully remote organization and focuses on scalable, secure infrastructure to support high-growth usage.

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