VP, Engineering

Circle is one of the world’s leading internet financial platform companies, building the foundation of a more open, global economy through digital assets and payment applications. As the VP of Engineering, you will lead the technical vision and execution for Circle’s platform engineering organization, ensuring scalable and secure platforms that support the company's products.

Responsibilities:

• Define and lead the long-term technical vision, strategy, and execution for Circle’s platform engineering organization
• Ensure the platforms that enable Circle’s products are scalable, secure, reliable, and compliant as the business grows globally
• Lead large, distributed engineering organizations through directors and senior managers, aligning multiple platform domains with company priorities
• Partner closely with executive leaders across Product, Security, Compliance, Infrastructure, and Business teams to translate strategic objectives into durable platform capabilities
• Establish operating models, engineering standards, and talent strategies that enable sustained delivery and engineering excellence
• Own and drive the multi-year technical vision and roadmap for Circle’s product-enabling platforms
• Set clear objectives, operating rhythms, and accountability for multiple engineering organizations
• Provide executive-level technical leadership on architecture, system design, and critical decisions for complex, distributed platform systems
• Partner with Product, Security, Compliance, and Infrastructure leaders to deliver platform capabilities aligned with business priorities and regulatory requirements
• Establish and enforce engineering standards for reliability, scalability, performance, security, and developer experience
• Anticipate and manage platform risks, dependencies, and technical debt to ensure long-term resilience and sustainability
• Act as a senior ambassador for engineering, clearly communicating platform opportunities, constraints, and trade-offs to executive and cross-functional stakeholders
• Contribute to engineering-wide strategy, planning, and talent initiatives as a member of Circle’s senior engineering leadership team

Requirements:

• 15+ years of software engineering experience, including 8+ years in senior engineering leadership roles
• Proven experience leading platform or infrastructure engineering organizations in a product-centric environment
• Demonstrated success managing leaders of leaders, including directors and senior managers
• Strong technical background with experience building and operating large-scale, highly available distributed systems
• Expertise running critical, high-traffic platforms, including observability, scaling, incident response, and reliability engineering practices
• Ability to balance long-term platform strategy with near- and mid-term execution and delivery
• Experience partnering closely with Product and cross-functional executives to translate business needs into shared platform solutions
• Passion for developing leaders, building strong teams, and fostering a culture of accountability and excellence
• Experience leading globally distributed, remote-first teams
• Comfort operating in fast-paced environments with significant autonomy, scope, and responsibility
• Experience building internal developer platforms or shared services used broadly across an organization
• Background working in regulated, security-sensitive, or compliance-heavy environments
• Experience scaling platforms in high-growth or rapidly evolving companies