Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Circle is building the world’s leading all-in-one platform for online communities. They are seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to help scale their platform, ensuring systems remain fast, reliable, and secure as usage increases.
Responsibilities
- Act as a first responder for system incidents and outages, helping Circle stay highly available and performant
- 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
Skills
- Strong alignment with our values (find our values on our career page if you haven't read up on them yet)
- You are proficient in English (spoken, written, and reading) at a CEFR Level C2 / ILR Level 5
- Deep expertise with AWS and Kubernetes
- 5+ years of experience in a Site Reliability, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering role
- Proven experience scaling production systems in a high-growth environment (startup or similar)
- Practical, day-to-day experience using AI tools to improve engineering productivity and outcomes (e.g., copilots, LLM-based debugging, automation, or documentation workflows)
- You've helped scale an early-stage product to 1M+ monthly active users
- 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
- Based in North or South America (AMER region) — this is a requirement for timezone alignment with our team
- Experience with SOC2 compliance or building secure infrastructure
- Experience with Clickhouse or similar technologies
Benefits
- Fully remote: work from anywhere in the world!
- Paid time away: all employees are given 35 days of PTO annually. We also offer a paid sabbatical after 5 years.
- Generous U.S. benchmarked compensation and startup equity no matter where you are in the world.*
- Awesome medical coverage with 100% coverage for you and your family, or medical reimbursement options where applicable!*
- Parental leave for parents expanding their family, or just starting one.
- Home office stipend to help you get up and running.
- Learning & development stipend to help you level up your professional skills.
- Annual bonus potential for roles that don't already receive variable income or commission.
- Company retreats: Twice a year, the Circle team gets together for a fully paid company retreat in incredible places around the world! We’ve had past retreats in Colombia, Portugal, and Mexico, with more planned on the horizon.
Company Overview
Circle is a community platform that brings together the creators' discussions, memberships, and content. It was founded in 2019, and is headquartered in New York, New York, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://circle.so/.