Key skills
AWSKubernetesSite Reliability EngineeringDevOpsInfrastructure EngineeringIncident ResponseProduction System Outage ManagementDatabase OperationsDatabase OptimizationObservability ToolingMonitoringLoggingEnglish proficiencyPostgresMySQLRedis
About this role
Circle is building the world’s leading all-in-one platform for online communities. They are seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to help scale their platform, ensuring systems remain fast, reliable, and secure as usage increases.
Responsibilities:
- Act as a first responder for system incidents and outages, helping Circle stay highly available and performant
- Own and evolve our monitoring, alerting, and log management systems
- Manage and optimize our database infrastructure (including MySQL, Postgres, Clickhouse, and Redis)
- Maintain and improve our server infrastructure and deployment pipelines
- Collaborate closely with engineering teams to build scalable, resilient systems
- Contribute to internal SRE tooling and automation efforts
Requirements:
- Strong alignment with our values (find our values on our career page if you haven't read up on them yet)
- You are proficient in English (spoken, written, and reading) at a CEFR Level C2 / ILR Level 5
- Deep expertise with AWS and Kubernetes
- 3+ years of experience in a Site Reliability, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering role
- Experience managing incident response and production system outages
- Hands-on experience with database operations and optimization
- Familiarity with observability tooling, monitoring, and logging best practices
- Based in North or South America (AMER region) — this is a requirement for timezone alignment with our team
- Experience with SOC2 compliance or building secure infrastructure
- You've helped scale an early-stage product to 1M+ monthly active users
- Experience with Clickhouse or similar technologies