Senior Site Reliability Engineer: AI-Powered Cloud Platform

Circle; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 153,000 - 205,000; Full time

Job summary

Circle, NYSE: CRCL, is a leading internet financial platform building open digital asset and blockchain infrastructure. We seek a Site Reliability Engineer to build scalable microservices, secure cloud infrastructure, and AI-enabled development tooling in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

You will design resilient architectures, improve deployment automation, and partner with product and engineering teams to deliver reliable, observable systems at scale.

Qualifications

• 3-6 years of professional software development experience.
• Hands-on experience building cloud-native apps on AWS or GCP with Kubernetes.
• Experience operating production workflow orchestration systems, developer platforms, or autonomous agent solutions.
• Experience integrating AI capabilities via APIs/SDKs with guardrails like observability and access controls.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, RESTful APIs, SQL design and data modeling.
• Commitment to clean, well-tested code and continuous delivery.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate scalable microservices, platform capabilities, and shared libraries.
• Design, deploy, and maintain secure, reliable cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes-based services.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines, developer workflows, and software delivery automation.
• Operate Circle’s autonomous coding-agent orchestration platform and AI-enabled tooling.
• Implement observability, monitoring, incident response, and cost management for production systems.
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering to design resilient architectures and improve reliability.
• Enhance security, access controls, auditability, and cost optimization across cloud infra.

Skills

Golang

Java

JavaScript/TypeScript

Python

Rust

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS

GCP

Kubernetes

Job description

Circle, NYSE: CRCL, is a leading internet financial platform building open digital asset and blockchain infrastructure. We seek a Site Reliability Engineer to build scalable microservices, secure cloud infrastructure, and AI-enabled development tooling in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

You will design resilient architectures, improve deployment automation, and partner with product and engineering teams to deliver reliable, observable systems at scale.