Senior-Staff-Data-Engineer

Circle
Anywhere
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 225,000 - 290,000 annuallyFunction: Solutions Engineering & Sales EngineeringSkills: ["Python","Go","Airflow","Astronomer","BigQuery","Dbt","Dataplex","Kubernetes","SQL","CI/CD"]

Lead Circle’s data reliability and governance strategy across a scalable, regulated fintech data platform. Define data quality standards, SLAs, and contracts; design observability and incident-management frameworks; drive cross-team prioritization of reliability initiatives; influence architecture for long-term scalability; and deliver robust data solutions in ambiguous environments, partnering with product and platform teams to reduce risk and improve data readiness.

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Circle
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Senior-Staff-Data-Engineer

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Job Summary

Lead Circle’s data reliability and governance strategy across a scalable, regulated fintech data platform. Define data quality standards, SLAs, and contracts; design observability and incident-management frameworks; drive cross-team prioritization of reliability initiatives; influence architecture for long-term scalability; and deliver robust data solutions in ambiguous environments, partnering with product and platform teams to reduce risk and improve data readiness.
Location: Anywhere
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Define and implement organization-wide data quality standards, including data contracts, SLAs, and governance frameworks across domains.
  • •Design and scale reliability and observability frameworks, including SLI/SLO models, lineage tracking, monitoring, and alerting patterns.
  • •Establish and evolve incident management practices, including severity models, escalation paths, on-call structures, and blameless postmortems.
  • •Develop and standardize data engineering SDLC practices, including testing strategies, CI/CD, versioning, and reusable frameworks.
  • •Drive cross-functional prioritization of reliability initiatives, balancing technical debt, operational health, and product delivery across teams.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 225,000 - 290,000 annually

Key Requirements

  • •Extensive experience designing and operating scalable data platforms with a focus on reliability, quality, and observability.
  • •Deep expertise in data architecture, including data modeling, pipeline design, and distributed data systems.
  • •Proven ability to define and implement data quality frameworks, including SLAs, data contracts, and governance standards.
  • •Strong experience establishing SLI/SLO frameworks, monitoring, and alerting for large-scale data systems.
  • •Demonstrated ability to lead complex, cross-team technical initiatives and drive alignment across stakeholders.
Experience:FintechPaymentsCryptoData engineeringData platforms
Skills:PythonGoAirflowAstronomerBigQueryDbtDataplexKubernetesSQLCI/CD
Languages:English
Tech Stack:PythonGoAirflowAstronomerBigQueryDbtDataplexKubernetesSQLCI/CD

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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