Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Infra Ops

Circle
San Francisco
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 152,500 - 205,000 annuallyFunction: DevOps, Cloud & InfrastructureSkills: ["Ownership","Clear written and verbal communication","Judgment","Code reviews","Mentorship"]

Design, build, and operate secure, scalable Kubernetes platform infrastructure that powers critical production workloads across hybrid and public-cloud environments. Build infrastructure-as-code with Terraform, develop backend services and operational automation in Go, Python, or JavaScript/TypeScript, and improve CI/CD and progressive delivery. Lead reliability ownership through on-call, incident response, root-cause analysis, and SLI/SLO/error-budget management while embedding security and compliance into platform operations.

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Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Infra Ops

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Job Summary

Design, build, and operate secure, scalable Kubernetes platform infrastructure that powers critical production workloads across hybrid and public-cloud environments. Build infrastructure-as-code with Terraform, develop backend services and operational automation in Go, Python, or JavaScript/TypeScript, and improve CI/CD and progressive delivery. Lead reliability ownership through on-call, incident response, root-cause analysis, and SLI/SLO/error-budget management while embedding security and compliance into platform operations.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: DevOps, Cloud & Infrastructure
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design, build, and operate Kubernetes platforms for secure, highly available, scalable foundations across hybrid and public-cloud environments.
  • •Build and govern infrastructure as code with Terraform, creating reusable modules and safe delivery workflows.
  • •Develop backend services, internal tools, and operational automation to reduce manual work and improve developer experience.
  • •Improve production lifecycle with reliable CI/CD, deployment automation, progressive delivery, and clear operational ownership.
  • •Own production reliability via on-call, leading incident response and root-cause analysis, and driving blameless postmortems and corrective actions.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 152,500 - 205,000 annually

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Infrastructure Engineering, or a related software engineering role supporting production systems.
  • •Deep hands-on Kubernetes expertise designing, operating, securing, and troubleshooting production clusters at scale.
  • •Strong Terraform experience authoring reusable modules and delivering reviewable, automated infrastructure changes.
  • •Production software development experience in Go, Python, or JavaScript/TypeScript to build maintainable backend services and automation.
  • •Demonstrated success improving reliability, performance, scalability, or cost efficiency of distributed systems; strong observability and troubleshooting (metrics, logs, traces, alerting).
Skills:OwnershipClear written and verbal communicationJudgmentCode reviewsMentorship
Tech Stack:KubernetesTerraformGoPythonJavaScriptTypeScriptCI/CDGitOpsCanaryBlue-greenObservabilityMetricsLogsTracesAlertingDashboardsSLIsSLOsError budgetsDisaster-recovery testing

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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