Senior Site Reliability Engineer

About the Role

Join our rapidly growing team as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to ensure Circle's platform remains fast, reliable, and secure, playing a critical role in scaling our infrastructure with confidence.

Responsibilities

• Act as a first responder for system incidents and outages, ensuring high availability and performance
• 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

• 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
• Proficient in English (spoken, written, and reading) at a CEFR Level C2 / ILR Level 5
• Based in North or South America (AMER region) for timezone alignment

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with SOC2 compliance or building secure infrastructure
• Experience scaling an early-stage product to 1M+ monthly active users
• Experience with Clickhouse or similar technologies