Staff SRE — Blockchain Platform & AI-Driven Infra

Circle Internet Management Services LLC; California; On-site; USD 195,000 - 258,000; Full time

Job summary

Circle is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to design, build, and operate the infrastructure powering our blockchain platform at scale. You will own reliability, performance, and automation across public clouds, collaborating with engineering, security, and product teams to deliver resilient services.

Ideal candidates have 6+ years in SRE/DevOps, strong Kubernetes expertise, Terraform or Pulumi, and experience with blockchain nodes; you will mentor engineers and help advance platform

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering, ideally supporting cloud-native platforms.
• Experience operating and troubleshooting blockchain nodes and other distributed systems in production environments.
• Strong experience with Kubernetes, including Helm, RBAC, operators, controllers, and observability tooling.

Responsibilities

• Operate and scale production blockchain infrastructure, managing full nodes across networks such as Arc, Ethereum, Solana, Base, and other supported protocols.
• Design, build, and maintain highly available, secure Kubernetes platforms with a focus on automation, resilience, and self-healing workloads.
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment workflows, and Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Pulumi, and cloud-native tooling.
• Develop AI-powered infrastructure automation, including Kubernetes lifecycle management, IaC analysis, blockchain cost optimization, and MCP server integrations to improve engineering productivity.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize distributed systems, participating in a follow-the-sun on-call rotation, incident response, and post-incident reviews to improve platform reliability.
• Partner closely with protocol, product, and security teams to deliver reliable infrastructure that supports network launches, upgrades, and evolving business requirements.
• Drive technical excellence by mentoring engineers, sharing SRE best practices, and contributing to architecture and reliability improvements across the platform.

Skills

Kubernetes

Go

Python

SRE

Cloud platforms

Tools

Terraform

Pulumi

Helm

RBAC

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Circle is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to design, build, and operate the infrastructure powering our blockchain platform at scale. You will own reliability, performance, and automation across public clouds, collaborating with engineering, security, and product teams to deliver resilient services.

Ideal candidates have 6+ years in SRE/DevOps, strong Kubernetes expertise, Terraform or Pulumi, and experience with blockchain nodes; you will mentor engineers and help advance platform