Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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Senior Site Reliability Engineer helping Circle scale its platform and manage system incidents. Must have strong experience in AWS, Kubernetes, and database management with a focus on high growth.

Responsibilities:

  • Act as a first responder for system incidents and outages, helping Circle stay highly available and performant
  • Own and evolve our monitoring, alerting, and log management systems
  • Manage and optimize our database infrastructure (including MySQL, Postgres, Clickhouse, and Redis)
  • Maintain and improve our server infrastructure and deployment pipelines
  • Collaborate closely with engineering teams to build scalable, resilient systems
  • Contribute to internal SRE tooling and automation efforts

Requirements:

  • Strong alignment with our values (find our values on our career page if you haven’t read up on them yet)
  • You are proficient in English (spoken, written, and reading) at a CEFR Level C2 / ILR Level 5
  • Deep expertise with AWS and Kubernetes
  • 3+ years of experience in a Site Reliability, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering role
  • Experience managing incident response and production system outages
  • Hands-on experience with database operations and optimization
  • Familiarity with observability tooling, monitoring, and logging best practices
  • Based in North or South America (AMER region) — this is a requirement for timezone alignment with our team

Benefits:

  • Fully remote: work from anywhere in the world!
  • Autonomy and trust to do your job: we care about outcomes over everything else.
  • Paid time away: all employees are given 35 days of PTO annually. We also offer a paid sabbatical after 5 years.
  • Generous U.S. benchmarked compensation and startup equity no matter where you are in the world.*
  • Awesome medical coverage with 100% coverage for you and your family, or medical reimbursement options where applicable!*
  • Parental leave for parents expanding their family, or just starting one.
  • Home office stipend to help you get up and running.
  • Learning & development stipend to help you level up your professional skills.
  • Annual bonus potential for roles that don't already receive variable income or commission.
  • Company retreats: Twice a year, the Circle team gets together for a fully paid company retreat in incredible places around the world! We’ve had past retreats in Colombia, Portugal, and Mexico, with more planned on the horizon.