Staff Site Reliability Engineer

🕒 August 5

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $195k - $257.5k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

⛑ DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

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Circle

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501 - 1000 employees

💳 Fintech

₿ Crypto

🌐 Web 3

Fintech • Crypto • Web 3

Circle is a financial technology company that focuses on utilizing blockchain technology to enable seamless, faster and secure transactions. Their main product, USDC, is a stablecoin designed to provide stability by being fully reserved and redeemable 1:1 for US dollars, and is widely used in global transactions to facilitate cross-border payments, crypto capital markets, and global dollar access. Circle offers an open developer platform that allows businesses to integrate blockchain functionalities such as programmable wallets and smart contracts into their applications. The company is committed to transparency and publishes regular reports on their reserve holdings.

📋 Description

• Design, build, and operate infrastructure powering Circle’s blockchain platform at scale • Own reliability, performance, and automation of distributed blockchain systems across multiple public cloud environments • Operate and scale production blockchain infrastructure, including full nodes across Arc, Ethereum, Solana, Base, and other protocols • Design, build, and maintain highly available, secure Kubernetes platforms • Build and improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment workflows, and Infrastructure as Code • Develop AI-powered infrastructure automation for Kubernetes lifecycle management, IaC analysis, blockchain cost optimization, and MCP integrations • Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize distributed systems • Participate in follow-the-sun on-call rotation, incident response, and post-incident reviews • Partner with protocol, product, and security teams on network launches, upgrades, and business requirements • Mentor engineers, share SRE best practices, and contribute to architecture and reliability improvements

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering • Experience in cloud-native or blockchain environments • Proven technical leadership in complex distributed systems architecture and design • Experience operating and troubleshooting blockchain nodes and distributed systems in production • Deep expertise in blockchain protocols and infrastructure demands • Deep expertise in Kubernetes internals and tuning for large-scale workloads • Strong Kubernetes experience, including Helm, RBAC, operators, controllers, and observability tooling • Experience building CI/CD pipelines, containerized workloads, and blue-green or canary releases • Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or Pulumi • Cloud networking fundamentals, including VPCs, DNS, load balancers, and secure connectivity • Proficiency in Go or Python • Experience managing SQL databases and stateful production services • Experience with agentic automation strategies and AI tooling in engineering workflows • Experience with observability and chaos engineering techniques • Experience mentoring engineers and scaling SRE best practices across teams • Strong engineering judgment, code quality, automated testing, and operational excellence • Ability to lead cross-functional technical initiatives and communicate effectively across engineering teams

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible work environment • Inclusive workplace culture • Opportunities to grow, be challenged, and learn constantly • Interview accommodations and assistance for candidates with disabilities