8 hours ago
Base Salary
$195k - $258k/yr
Responsibilities
- Operate and scale production blockchain infrastructure, including full nodes across Arc, Ethereum, Solana, Base, and other supported protocols.
- Design, build, and maintain highly available Kubernetes platforms with automation, resilience, and self-healing workloads.
- Build CI/CD pipelines, deployment workflows, and Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Pulumi, and cloud-native tooling.
- Develop AI-powered infrastructure automation for Kubernetes lifecycle management, IaC analysis, blockchain cost optimization, and MCP server integrations.
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize distributed systems while participating in follow-the-sun on-call rotations, incident response, and post-incident reviews.
- Partner with protocol, product, security, and engineering teams on network launches, upgrades, and evolving infrastructure requirements.
- Lead technical initiatives, mentor engineers, and improve architecture and SRE practices across the platform.
Requirements
- At least 6 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering, ideally in cloud-native or blockchain environments.
- Experience operating and troubleshooting blockchain nodes and distributed systems in production.
- Deep expertise in Kubernetes internals and tuning for large-scale workloads, including Helm, RBAC, operators, controllers, and observability tooling.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, containerized workloads, and blue-green or canary deployment strategies.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or Pulumi and cloud networking fundamentals such as VPCs, DNS, load balancers, and secure connectivity.
- Proficiency in Go or Python for platform automation, infrastructure tooling, and operational workflows.
- Experience managing SQL databases and stateful production services with strong reliability and performance knowledge.
- Proven technical leadership in complex distributed-systems architecture and design.
- Experience with agentic automation, AI-enabled infrastructure tooling, MCP servers, observability, and chaos engineering.
- Experience mentoring engineers and scaling SRE best practices across teams, with strong engineering judgment and communication skills.
- Passion for crypto and blockchain infrastructure and familiarity with responsible use of generative AI are preferred.
Benefits
- Base pay range is $195,000–$257,500.
- Flexible work environment with a remote work arrangement indicated by the #LI-Remote designation.
- Participation in Circle’s inclusive, equal-opportunity workplace and interview accommodation support.
