Software Engineer

CircleCI Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 155,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous PTO

Mental health support

100% benefits coverage

Job summary

CircleCI is hiring in San Francisco for an AI-driven, full-stack engineer who will own features end-to-end using Go, React, and TypeScript. You’ll craft interfaces that reinvents software delivery and build with a strong focus on reliability and performance.

You’ll work with observability tools such as Honeycomb, Datadog, and Rollbar to drive stability, latency control, and proactive improvements, while shipping real product value with cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of production full-stack experience.
• Strong React and TypeScript, with backend in Go.
• Ability to design scalable systems and tradeoffs.

Responsibilities

• Build AI-natively; apply AI as a core approach to problems.
• Invent new interfaces for software delivery and tooling.
• Own features end-to-end across Go, React, and TypeScript.
• Maintain high craft with reliable, responsive interfaces.
• Champion observability using Honeycomb, Datadog & Rollbar.
• Identify gaps and proactively close them.

Skills

AI-native practices

Full-stack React/TypeScript

Go backend

System design

Production mindset

Tools

Honeycomb

Datadog

Rollbar

Job description

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We prioritize the health and wellbeing of our employees through our comprehensive benefit package, including generous paid time off to rest and recharge, holistic mental health support, and benefits covering employees up to 100%.

Growth

Flexibility

What does it mean to work at CircleCI? For us, flexibility is key.

About CircleCI Engineering

CI/CD has been solved. Now it's being reinvented. AI agents don't just run pipelines. They write code, trigger builds, interpret failures, and propose fixes. The interfaces that developers use to understand and trust that work don't exist yet. We're building them.

At CircleCI, our guiding principles aren't posters on a wall. We learn fast: we run experiments, accept failure, and scale what works. We think like the customer: every decision connects back to the developer sitting in front of a failing build at 2 am. We own the outcome: not just our slice of it, but the whole thing. If that's how you already work, you'll fit here.

We don't hire for a team. We hire for CircleCI. Where you land depends on where your strengths create the most leverage, and we figure that out together. You might own the CI pipeline experience, deploy and release tooling, notification infrastructure, monetization flows, AI agent surfaces, or the foundational web platform. The through line across all of it is the same: full-stack ownership, a high bar for craft, and work that directly shapes how tens of thousands of developers experience CircleCI every day.

What You'll Do

• Build AI-natively. AI is how we work. It’s not a productivity layer on top of engineering, but the default starting point for how problems get approached and solved.
• Invent new interfaces. Software delivery is being reinvented. Pipelines run autonomously, generate fixes, and surface results that need human judgment. The tools developers use to understand, trust, and act on that work don't exist yet. You'll define what they look like.
• Own the full stack. Build features end-to-end in Go, React, and TypeScript. You don't hand off at a layer boundary. You own the outcome.
• Obsess over craft. Reliability and responsiveness are design concerns, not afterthoughts. Care about how the interface holds up when stakes are high.
• Champion observability. Use Honeycomb, Datadog, and Rollbar to understand and improve your systems. Operational data drives stability, not just incident response.
• Pick up slack. You'll notice gaps and close them — not because you were asked, but because that's the standard we hold ourselves to.

What You'll Bring

• AI-native engineering practices. You use AI tools daily and can speak to what you've built, where they changed your approach, and where they fall short.
• A track record of shipping. You've built something real and put it in front of users. 3+ years of production full-stack experience.
• Full-stack depth. Strong React and TypeScript. Comfortable owning backend services in Go: API design, data modeling, service integration.
• System design. You think about architecture, not just features. You make conscious tradeoffs and document your reasoning.
• Production mindset. Latency, responsiveness, and reliability are design concerns. You're comfortable operating services in a distributed environment.

You've stopped waiting for AI to mature and are already building with it, not as a productivity trick, but as a core part of how you think about problems. You care about the product as much as the code. You're drawn to work where the patterns don't exist yet and the best answer requires you to invent it. If that's how you already operate, we want to talk.

The salary range listed reflects the wide geographic scope of this posting, as we hire across the United States and Canada. Actual compensation is determined based on a combination of factors, including but not limited to skills, experience, job-related knowledge, and geographic location. As a result, the starting salary offered may vary and could fall anywhere within the posted range, and not all candidates should expect to receive an offer at the top of the range.

$130,000 — $175,000 CAD

Expected salary range for San Francisco and the surrounding area.

$155,000 — $215,000 USD

Expected salary range for specific metro areas including Boston, Washington DC, Denver, Los Angeles, New York, Portland, San Diego, and Seattle. These metro areas may change periodically.

$150,000 — $205,000 USD

Expected pay range for all other US locations not falling into Metro Zone 3 or Metro Zone 2.

US General

$135,000 — $190,000 USD

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonableaccommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to performessential 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 Affym? 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.