Distinguished Software Engineer

Circle
San Francisco
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 285,000 - 352,500 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 15+ yearsSkills: ["System design","Technical leadership","Mentorship","Cross-functional collaboration","Engineering rigor"]

Drive the long-term technical direction of Circle’s platform and core distributed systems. You’ll design and steward scalable, reliable architectures used across multiple products and teams, lead cross-functional initiatives with Engineering, Product, Infrastructure, Security, and Compliance, and address technical debt and bottlenecks. Serve as a trusted technical authority and mentor senior engineers while shaping engineering standards, reliability/performance practices, and developer experience.

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Circle
Circle
6 months ago

Distinguished Software Engineer

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Job Summary

Drive the long-term technical direction of Circle’s platform and core distributed systems. You’ll design and steward scalable, reliable architectures used across multiple products and teams, lead cross-functional initiatives with Engineering, Product, Infrastructure, Security, and Compliance, and address technical debt and bottlenecks. Serve as a trusted technical authority and mentor senior engineers while shaping engineering standards, reliability/performance practices, and developer experience.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design, evolve, and steward core platform architectures to ensure scalability, reliability, and long-term resilience.
  • •Drive architectural direction and technical strategy for critical distributed systems across Circle’s product ecosystem.
  • •Lead cross-team, cross-functional technical initiatives in partnership with Engineering, Product, Infrastructure, Security, and Compliance.
  • •Provide deep technical leadership and mentorship to elevate system design quality and engineering rigor across teams.
  • •Identify and address platform-wide technical debt, architectural risks, and systemic bottlenecks while influencing best practices in observability, reliability, and performance.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 285,000 - 352,500 annually

Key Requirements

  • •15+ years of software engineering experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems.
  • •Proven ability to architect and scale platform systems supporting multiple downstream products and teams.
  • •Ability to set long-term technical direction and make pragmatic, high-impact execution decisions.
  • •Extensive experience operating critical, highly available systems with strong observability, reliability, and performance practices.
  • •Strong system design skills to debug and resolve complex issues across services and architectural boundaries.
Experience:15+ yearsDistributed systemsPlatform engineeringFintechBlockchain
Skills:System designTechnical leadershipMentorshipCross-functional collaborationEngineering rigor

Company Brief

Circle
Provides blockchain-based financial infrastructure and stablecoins (notably USDC and EURC) and payment solutions for enterprises, developers, and financial institutions to enable programmable money and global payments.
Industry: Fintech Infrastructure
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: New York City, United States
Founded: 2013
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