Software Engineer - Pipelines

CircleCI; London; Remote; GBP 66,000 - 82,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company is seeking a talented developer to join their Pipelines team. In this fully remote role, you will design and build new features, support and debug production microservices, and champion observability practices. You will collaborate with a multi-functional team to tackle business problems and deliver value through effective solutions. This position offers a dynamic environment where your contributions will directly impact product success and user satisfaction. If you are passionate about coding and eager to work with cutting-edge technologies, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience with distributed systems and full stack development.
• Strong observability skills for monitoring and debugging.

Responsibilities

• Design and build features, simplify services, and scale systems.
• Write high-quality, maintainable code and support microservices.

Skills

Clojure

Go

JavaScript

Observability

Analytical Skills

Leadership

Collaboration

Job description

Team Summary

The Pipelines team is responsible for reliably ingesting and orchestrating hundreds of thousands of pipelines per day at scale. As a team member, you’ll take ownership of critical services and join a highly skilled, collaborative team built on trust. Your work will have a direct impact on the success of our products and the satisfaction of our users.

What You’ll Do

• Design and build new features, simplify existing services, and scale our systems as we rapidly grow and evolve.
• Write sustainable, testable, high-quality, high-performance code.
• Support, maintain, and debug production microservices in a highly complex distributed system.
• Champion a culture of observability and monitoring by using operational data to help your team improve the stability and performance of our systems.
• Partner with members of a multi-functional team and other collaborators to set the direction of our product: learn about our business problems, explore solutions, weigh design tradeoffs, write effective user stories, and prioritize them to deliver maximum value in a balanced, incremental fashion.

What We’re Looking For

• 2+ years of professional experience writing high-quality, maintainable, and testable code for distributed systems, with part of this experience as a full stack developer.
• Interest in learning and using Clojure on a day-to-day basis, with support available for those new to the language, and an interest in working with Go and JavaScript.
• Strong observability skills, including setting up alerts, logs, and metrics, and using them to monitor and investigate issues.
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to identify problems, propose solutions, and evaluate the pros and cons of different approaches.
• Leadership skills, with the ability to guide and mentor team members, and potentially take on project leadership responsibilities.
• Excellent collaboration skills, able to work effectively within and across teams.

This is a fully remote role.

UK Pay range:

£66,000.00 - £82,000.00

Canada Base Pay Range: $113,000 — $141,000 CAD

United Kingdom Base Pay Range: £66,000 — £82,000 GBP

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

About CircleCI

CircleCI is the world’s largest continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform, and the hub where code moves from idea to delivery. As one of the most-used DevOps tools - processing more than 3 million jobs a day - CircleCI has unique access to data on how the most effective engineering teams work, and the tools to help software companies successfully leverage the power of AI into their commercial applications. Companies like Hinge, HuggingFace, and Samsung use us to improve engineering team productivity, release better products, and get to market faster.

Founded in 2011 and headquartered in downtown San Francisco with a global, remote workforce, CircleCI is venture-backed by Base10, Greenspring Associates, Eleven Prime, IVP, Sapphire Ventures, Top Tier Capital Partners, Baseline Ventures, Threshold Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, Owl Rock Capital, Next Equity Partners, Heavybit, and Harrison Metal Capital.

CircleCI is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.