Staff Software Engineer, Data Platform

Omaze; United States; On-site; USD 195,000 - 257,500; Full time

Job summary

A leading digital finance platform is seeking experienced engineers for the position ranging from Senior Software Engineer to Staff Software Engineer. Responsibilities include designing and maintaining data platform services, enhancing operational performance, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. Candidates should have considerable experience in building data-intensive systems, strong technical skills in data pipeline design, and excellent communication abilities. The role is remote with a competitive salary range between $195,000 and $257,500.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of software engineering experience building data-intensive systems.
• Experience in payment systems, credit cards, bank transfers, or blockchains.
• Strong understanding of cloud-native data platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate data platform services and enhance platform operations.
• Implement data ingestion framework for analytical and operational needs.
• Collaborate across teams on data contract modeling and governance.

Skills

Software engineering experience building data-intensive systems

Designing and operating scalable batch data pipelines

Understanding of open-source data technologies

Excellent communication skills

Tools

Apache Flink

Google Cloud Dataflow

NoSQL databases

Job description

Overview

Circle (NYSE: CRCL) is one of the world’s leading internet financial platform companies building the foundation of a more open, global economy through digital assets, payment applications, and programmable blockchain infrastructure. Circle’s platform includes the world’s largest regulated stablecoin network anchored by USDC, Circle Payments Network for global money movement, and Arc, an enterprise-grade blockchain designed to become the Economic OS for the internet. Enterprises, financial institutions, and developers use Circle to power trusted, internet-scale financial innovation. Learn more at circle.com.

What you’ll be part of

Circle is committed to visibility and stability in everything we do. As we grow as an organization, we are expanding into some of the world’s strongest jurisdictions. Speed and efficiency are motivators for our success and our employees live by our company values: High Integrity, Future Forward, Multistakeholder, Mindful, and Driven by Excellence. We have built a flexible work environment where new ideas are encouraged and everyone is a stakeholder.

Your team and role

Senior Software Engineer (III) to Staff Software Engineer (IV). Your team is responsible for the core Data warehouse platform, data ingestion and processing, ETL/ELT pipelines orchestration, data cataloging, and data governance. These components power our Product, Engineering, Analytics, and Data Science teams by enabling experimentation, operational excellence, and actionable insights to accelerate business growth.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate data platform services (warehousing, orchestration, and catalogs). Continuously enhance platform operations by improving monitoring, performance, reliability, and resource optimization.
• Design, build and maintain batch and streaming data ingestion framework to source the required data for analytical and operational needs, including onchain data, internal system data, and partner data.
• Be a domain expert in streaming processing, data pipelines, data warehousing and quality. Work closely across multiple stakeholders–including Product, Engineering, Data Science, Security and Compliance teams–on data contract modeling, data lifecycle management, governance and regulatory/legal compliance.
• Provide ML data platform capabilities for AI/Data Science teams to perform data preparation, model preparation and serving, and performance monitoring.
• Develop and maintain core services and libraries to enhance critical platform functionalities, such as cataloging data assets and lineage, tracking data versioning and quality, managing auto-backfilling, and implementing access controls on data assets.

Qualifications

Senior Software Engineer (III):

• 4+ years of software engineering experience building data-intensive systems
• Hands-on experience designing and operating scalable batch, micro-batch, or streaming data pipelines
• Experience in business domains such as payment systems, credit cards, bank transfers, or blockchains
• Familiarity with data governance, lineage, and provenance concepts
• Strong understanding of open-source data technologies and cloud-native data platforms
• Ability to tackle complex and ambiguous problems
• Self-starter who takes ownership and enjoys moving at a fast pace
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across multiple remote teams, share ideas and present concepts effectively

Nice to have:

• Experience with streaming frameworks such as Apache Flink or Google Cloud Dataflow
• Experience with NoSQL databases such as Bigtable, Cassandra

Staff Software Engineer (IV):

Includes all the requirements of a Senior Software Engineer, and:

• 7+ years in software engineering experience for large-scale and complex data systems
• Proven technical leadership in architecture and system design, influencing designs across multiple teams
• Deep expertise in one or more of: streaming systems, data warehousing, data modeling, or large-scale ingestion platforms
• Ability to identify high-impact technical opportunities independently and drive them from concept to production
• Strong experience in:
• Data platforms integrated with downstream consumers, tools, and services
• Data quality, validation, and observability mechanisms across pipelines
• Comfortable making and defending long-term architectural tradeoffs in ambiguous environments

Nice to have:

• Hands-on Experience taking an operational, data-intensive application from initial design to production (0→1), or scaling and operating it at production scale
• Experience developing real-time analytics or near-real-time decisioning systems

Compensation and EEO

Circle is on a mission to create an inclusive financial future, with transparency at our core. We consider a wide variety of elements when crafting our compensation ranges and total compensation packages. Base Pay Range: $195,000 - $257,500.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, or any other protected status required by the laws in the locations where we hire. Circle participates in the E-Verify Program in certain locations, as required by law.

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