Circle

Distinguished Software Engineer

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Remote, United StatesStaff+
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$285k - $353k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, evolve, and steward core platform architectures for scalability, reliability, and long-term resilience.
  • Drive technical strategy and architectural direction for critical distributed systems.
  • Lead cross-team and cross-functional engineering initiatives across Engineering, Product, Infrastructure, Security, and Compliance.
  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to improve system design quality and engineering rigor.
  • Identify and address platform-wide technical debt, architectural risks, and systemic bottlenecks.
  • Influence engineering-wide practices in observability, reliability, performance, and developer experience.
  • Serve as a trusted technical advisor on major technical decisions and long-term platform evolution.
  • Champion innovation, knowledge sharing, and engineering excellence.

Requirements

  • 15+ years of software engineering experience, including deep expertise designing and operating large-scale distributed systems.
  • Proven experience architecting and scaling platform systems that support multiple downstream products and teams.
  • Ability to set long-term technical direction while making pragmatic, high-impact execution decisions.
  • Extensive experience operating critical, highly available systems with strong observability, reliability, and performance practices.
  • Exceptional system design and debugging skills across services and architectural boundaries.
  • Strong cross-functional collaboration skills and demonstrated influence beyond immediate teams.
  • Preferred: experience building broadly adopted internal developer platforms or shared services.
  • Preferred: familiarity with regulated, compliance-heavy, or security-sensitive environments.
  • Preferred: experience shaping engineering-wide practices, tools, or standards as a recognized technical leader.

Benefits

  • Distributed, remote-first work environment.
  • Base pay range of $285,000-$352,500.
  • Equal opportunity employer with disability accommodations available during the interview process.

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