Senior SRE for AI-Powered Platform

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

Job summary

Circle is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to build and maintain shared platform capabilities and scalable microservices on AWS/GCP with Kubernetes. You’ll improve CI/CD, collaborate with Product and Engineering to deploy reliable production systems, and support AI-enabled tooling integration.

You will ensure observability, security, and cost management while scaling Circle's infrastructure and automating developer workflows.

Qualifications

• 3-6 years of professional software development experience.
• Hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native applications on AWS or GCP, including Kubernetes-based infrastructure.
• Experience engineering and operating production workflow orchestration systems, developer platforms, or autonomous agent solutions.
• Experience integrating AI capabilities through APIs, SDKs, or workflow tooling with guardrails (observability, access controls, auditing, monitoring).
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, RESTful API design, SQL database design and optimization.
• Commitment to writing clean, maintainable, well-tested code for CD/CI and reliability.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate scalable microservices, platform capabilities, and shared libraries.
• Design, deploy, and maintain secure cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes-based services.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines and developer workflows across teams.
• Engineer and operate autonomous coding-agent orchestration platform and AI-enabled tooling.
• Implement observability, incident response, and cost management for production systems and AI services.
• Partner with Product and Engineering to design resilient architectures and improve platform reliability.

Skills

Go

Java

TypeScript

Python

Rust

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Job description

Circle is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to build and maintain shared platform capabilities and scalable microservices on AWS/GCP with Kubernetes. You’ll improve CI/CD, collaborate with Product and Engineering to deploy reliable production systems, and support AI-enabled tooling integration.

You will ensure observability, security, and cost management while scaling Circle's infrastructure and automating developer workflows.