Remote Senior Quality Platform Engineer

Description:

• Circle is building an all-in-one platform for online communities, enabling creators, coaches, educators, and businesses to engage their audiences through discussions, live streams, events, chat, courses, and payments.
• The company is fully remote with around 200 team members from over 30 countries, focusing on high expectations and collaboration across time zones.
• The Senior Quality Platform Engineer will design, build, and maintain internal tooling, automation, workflows, and quality infrastructure to help teams ship faster and safer.
• This role combines software engineering, developer experience, and quality strategy, focusing on building scalable and measurable quality systems.
• Responsibilities include developing the Quality Platform, improving developer experience, building reliability systems, defining standards, and creating "golden paths" for developers.

Requirements:

• Candidates must align with Circle's values and be proficient in English at a CEFR Level C2 or ILR Level 5.
• Strong experience in at least one modern testing framework (e.g., Playwright, Cypress, Jest, JUnit).
• A solid software engineering background in languages such as TypeScript, JavaScript, Java, or Python is required.
• Familiarity with Ruby is necessary as it is used in backend systems.
• Experience in building internal tooling, utilities, or engineering platforms is essential.
• A deep understanding of CI/CD processes and knowledge of cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) is required.
• Candidates should have experience with quality telemetry, observability, monitoring, and performance/load testing.
• A quality engineering mindset with shift-left and shift-right testing practices, and the ability to design high-leverage systems is necessary.
• Candidates should be collaborative, curious, and passionate about elevating quality across the organization.

Benefits:

• The position is fully remote, allowing employees to work from anywhere in the world.
• Employees enjoy autonomy and trust to perform their jobs, focusing on outcomes.
• Circle offers 35 days of paid time off annually, along with a paid sabbatical after five years.
• The company provides generous compensation benchmarked against U.S. standards and startup equity.
• Employees receive comprehensive medical coverage for themselves and their families, or medical reimbursement options where applicable.
• Parental leave is available for employees expanding their families.
• A home office stipend is provided to help employees set up their workspaces.
• A learning and development stipend is available to support professional skill enhancement.
• There is potential for an annual bonus for roles that do not already receive variable income or commission.
• The company organizes twice-yearly retreats for the team in various beautiful locations around the world.