Staff Site Reliability Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California.

📋 Description

• Design, construct, and manage infrastructure that supports Circle’s blockchain platform at scale.

• Take responsibility for the reliability, performance, and automation of distributed blockchain systems across various public cloud environments.

• Operate and expand production blockchain infrastructure, including full nodes across Arc, Ethereum, Solana, Base, and other protocols.

• Create, build, and sustain highly available, secure Kubernetes platforms.

• Develop and enhance CI/CD pipelines, deployment workflows, and Infrastructure as Code.

• Innovate AI-driven infrastructure automation for Kubernetes lifecycle management, IaC analysis, blockchain cost optimization, and MCP integrations.

• Monitor, diagnose, and enhance distributed systems.

• Engage in follow-the-sun on-call rotation, incident response, and post-incident evaluations.

• Collaborate with protocol, product, and security teams on network launches, upgrades, and business requirements.

• Mentor engineers, disseminate SRE best practices, and contribute to architecture and reliability enhancements.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 6 years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering.

• Experience in cloud-native or blockchain settings.

• Demonstrated technical leadership in the architecture and design of complex distributed systems.

• Experience in operating and troubleshooting blockchain nodes and distributed systems in a production environment.

• Extensive knowledge of blockchain protocols and their infrastructure requirements.

• In-depth understanding of Kubernetes internals and tuning for large-scale workloads.

• Strong experience with Kubernetes, including Helm, RBAC, operators, controllers, and observability tools.

• Proven experience in building CI/CD pipelines, containerized workloads, and implementing blue-green or canary releases.

• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or Pulumi.

• Understanding of cloud networking fundamentals, including VPCs, DNS, load balancers, and secure connectivity.

• Proficient in Go or Python.

• Experience managing SQL databases and stateful production services.

• Familiarity with agentic automation strategies and AI tools in engineering processes.

• Knowledge of observability and chaos engineering methodologies.

• Experience mentoring engineers and implementing SRE best practices across teams.

• Strong engineering judgment, commitment to code quality, automated testing, and operational excellence.

• Ability to lead cross-functional technical projects and communicate effectively across engineering teams.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible work environment.

• Inclusive workplace culture.

• Opportunities for growth, continual challenges, and learning.

• Interview accommodations and support for candidates with disabilities.