Circle

Data Engineer - Risk & Compliance

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4 days ago
Remote, United StatesMid Level
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$123k - $165k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Partner with product engineering, risk, compliance, data analytics, and data science teams to define data requirements, models, business logic, and pipelines.
  • Develop data solutions supporting transaction monitoring, sanctions and AML screening, regulatory reporting, and audit evidence.
  • Build, operate, and own production data pipelines and models, including on-call support, runbooks, data quality checks, alerting, and root-cause fixes.
  • Ingest and model large-scale data from multiple blockchains while handling reorganizations, late or missing records, and upstream schema changes.
  • Deliver new data sources, domain models, and backfills with limited supervision.
  • Apply access controls, authorized views, and PII-handling requirements, and identify control gaps.
  • Build scalable automated solutions using SQL, Python, orchestration, transformation tooling, and AI.
  • Review peer code and models, document delivered work, and keep partners informed of progress and risks.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative or technical field such as Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Economics, or Finance, or equivalent experience.
  • 3+ years of experience building and operating production data pipelines and models.
  • Proficiency in SQL and Python.
  • Experience with a modern data stack, including a cloud data warehouse, an orchestrator such as Airflow, and a transformation tool such as dbt.
  • Ability to deliver well-scoped work independently with high-quality, tested code and few errors.
  • Clear communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to explain data pipelines to non-technical partners.
  • Strong ownership and root-cause analysis skills when data or pipelines are incorrect or fail.
  • Experience with blockchain data, financial services, risk, compliance, banking, or other regulated industries is preferred but not required.

Benefits

  • Flexible work environment.
  • Remote work indicated by the #LI-Remote designation.
  • Circle is an equal opportunity employer and provides interview accommodations for candidates with disabilities.
  • Base pay range is $122,500–$165,000, with compensation determined by experience, skills, qualifications, and other business factors.

Tech Stack

Apache AirflowdbtPythonSQL

Categories

Data Engineering
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About Circle

1,001-5,000 employees

Circle builds a platform for businesses to use digital dollars and blockchain for payments, treasury, and programmable finance. It issues USDC, a widely used dollar stablecoin, and offers APIs, the Circle Payments Network, and Arc, an enterprise-focused blockchain. Founded in 2013 and publicly traded on the NYSE (CRCL), Circle operates remote-first and serves enterprises, financial institutions, and developers worldwide.

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