Remote Senior or Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Description:

• As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Circle, you will design, build, and maintain Circle’s infrastructure estate to support a growing worldwide customer base on public cloud providers across multiple regions.
• You will ensure Circle’s products and core systems are running consistently, reasonably, and in a performant manner.
• This role offers a unique opportunity to develop your skills, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and continuously learn in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.
• You will support multiple development teams with an agile, responsive CI/CD platform to deliver high-quality builds with measurable performance and quality.
• Your responsibilities will include building, maintaining, improving, scaling, and securing cloud infrastructure and resources using IaC tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, and Ansible.
• You will automate operational tasks using Go, Python, and serverless solutions like AWS Lambda and Kubernetes Jobs.
• You will design, manage, and monitor Kubernetes clusters for multiple production workloads.
• You will drive forward blockchain infrastructure by creating and managing blockchain nodes across various blockchains including Algorand, Ethereum, Hedera, Flow, Solana, and Stellar.
• Participation in an on-call rotation to mitigate disruption for any production systems and conducting root cause analysis will be required.
• You will plan and test disaster recovery scenarios for a highly available microservices architecture.
• Collaboration with the Security team to create and maintain security-focused tools and frameworks will be part of your role.
• You will engage and mentor team members, helping to grow and scale the team.

Requirements:

• For the Senior Site Reliability Engineer (III) position, you need 4+ years in DevOps or SRE roles, focusing on tooling, automation, and infrastructure on a major public cloud provider.
• Proficiency in coding and/or scripting with languages such as Go, Python, and Shell is required.
• You should have at least 3 years of combined experience in building and maintaining CI/CD platforms and supporting agile engineering teams in building microservices.
• Experience in building Docker images and deploying containers in Kubernetes clusters is necessary.
• Familiarity with any modern CI/CD platform with complex gates and workflows is required.
• You should have knowledge of Blue-Green, Canary, and A/B Testing deployment strategies.
• Experience with distributed blockchain systems and maintaining blockchain full nodes is essential.
• Knowledge of database technologies such as PostgreSQL, Redis, and OpenSearch is required.
• You should have experience in migrating and transforming large, complex datasets from diverse sources, structures, and formats.
• Familiarity with data warehousing tooling and services like Apache Airflow, AWS DMS, and Snowflake is necessary.
• Knowledge of networking routing, DNS, load balancing, and edge networking is required.
• You should have experience with APM, RUM, monitoring, and telemetry tools.
• Proficiency in Helm charts and deploying and maintaining Kubernetes clusters is necessary.
• You should be skilled in authoring and maintaining IaC with Terraform and deploying resources in public cloud providers.
• Strong skills in observability, troubleshooting, and performance solutions are required.
• You should exhibit strong communication skills and the ability to explain technical concepts to peers and stakeholders.
• For the Staff Site Reliability Engineer (IV) position, all the requirements of the Senior Site Reliability Engineer apply, plus you need 7+ years in DevOps or SRE roles and experience leading teams technically on architecture and system design.

Benefits:

• This position is eligible for day-one PERM sponsorship for qualified candidates.
• The starting pay for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer ranges from $147,500 to $195,000, with an annual bonus target of 12.5%.
• The starting pay for a Staff Site Reliability Engineer ranges from $172,500 to $227,500, with an annual bonus target of 15%.
• Additional benefits include equity and comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Circle offers a discretionary vacation policy, 10 days of paid sick leave per year, and 11 paid holidays per year in the U.S.