Circle

Staff Site Reliability Engineer

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8 hours ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
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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.

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