Staff Software Engineer

CircleCI Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

CircleCI Engineering is redefining AI-enabled software delivery. The team builds AI-native solutions that write code, trigger builds, interpret failures, and propose fixes across the full stack.

Engineers own technical strategy, align architecture with business goals, and deliver end-to-end features in Go, React, and TypeScript at scale. You’ll collaborate with Product and Engineering Management to translate roadmap intent into technical choices, champion observability across services, and

Qualifications

• AI-native engineering practices.
• Track record of shipping at scale.

Responsibilities

• Build AI-natively. AI is how we work and solve problems.
• Own technical strategy for your domain and break down ambiguity across projects.
• Invent new interfaces for delivery tooling and surfaces you define patterns for the team.
• Own the full stack, building features end-to-end in Go, React and TypeScript.
• Connect engineering to the business by translating goals into technical tradeoffs.
• Champion observability with monitoring and alerting across your domain using tools like Honeycomb, Datadog, Rollbar.
• Mentor multiple engineers at scale and create documentation that transfers knowledge.

Tools

Go

React

TypeScript

Job description

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.

Team-Agnostic Placement

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.


• Own technical strategy for your domain. You decide when and how the architecture evolves, balancing technical debt against velocity. When a project spans teams, you're the one who breaks down the ambiguity and takes ownership of whether it lands.


• 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 and establish the patterns the team builds on.


• Own the full stack, at scale. Build features end-to-end in Go, React, and TypeScript. Your ownership extends past your own code to the systems and teams around it.


• Connect engineering to the business. Partner directly with Product and Engineering Management to translate business goals into technical strategy. You understand the \"why\" behind the roadmap and use it to make tradeoffs.


• Champion observability. Drive monitoring and alerting strategy across your domain, not just your own services. Use Honeycomb, Datadog, and Rollbar to reduce noise and improve the org's ability to diagnose problems quickly.


• Mentor at scale. Mentor multiple engineers at once. Build the systems and documentation that transfer knowledge and remove single points of failure, not just your own.

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 at scale. You've built and owned systems that other engineers build on. 8+ ye