Senior Staff Data Engineer

Circle
San Francisco
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 225,000 - 290,000 annuallyFunction: Solutions Engineering & Sales EngineeringSkills: ["Cross-team leadership","Stakeholder alignment","Accountability","Continuous improvement"]

Define and drive Circle’s data reliability, quality, and operational excellence across the data ecosystem. Establish company-wide standards for data quality, contracts, and governance; design scalable reliability and observability frameworks (SLI/SLO, lineage, monitoring, alerting); and institutionalize incident management with blameless postmortems. Lead cross-team prioritization of reliability investments and deliver complex, high-impact initiatives that improve long-term scalability and reduce systemic risk.

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Circle
Circle
3 months ago

Senior Staff Data Engineer

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Job Summary

Define and drive Circle’s data reliability, quality, and operational excellence across the data ecosystem. Establish company-wide standards for data quality, contracts, and governance; design scalable reliability and observability frameworks (SLI/SLO, lineage, monitoring, alerting); and institutionalize incident management with blameless postmortems. Lead cross-team prioritization of reliability investments and deliver complex, high-impact initiatives that improve long-term scalability and reduce systemic risk.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Define and implement organization-wide data quality standards, including data contracts, SLAs, and governance 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.
  • •Standardize data engineering SDLC practices, including testing strategies, CI/CD, versioning, and reusable frameworks.
  • •Drive cross-functional prioritization of reliability initiatives and lead complex, high-impact data initiatives in ambiguous environments.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 225,000 - 290,000 annually

Key Requirements

  • •Extensive experience designing and operating scalable data platforms focused 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 with monitoring and alerting for large-scale data systems.
  • •Demonstrated ability to lead complex cross-team technical initiatives and drive stakeholder alignment.
Experience:FintechPaymentsCrypto
Skills:Cross-team leadershipStakeholder alignmentAccountabilityContinuous improvement
Tech Stack:Astronomer (Airflow)BigQueryDbtDataplexKubernetesPythonGo

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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