Circle
Distinguished Software Engineer
San Francisco - remote first in US · Senior
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About the role
- Enterprises, financial institutions, and developers use Circle to power trusted, internet-scale financial innovation.
- As we grow as an organization, we're expanding into some of the world's strongest jurisdictions.
- Speed and efficiency are motivators for our success and our employees live by our company values: High Integrity, Future Forward, Multistakeholder, Mindful, and Driven by Excellence.
Responsibilities
- Design, evolve, and steward core platform architectures to ensure scalability, reliability, and long-term resilience.
- Drive architectural direction and technical strategy for critical distributed systems used across Circle's product ecosystem.
- Lead cross-team, cross-functional technical initiatives in partnership with Engineering, Product, Infrastructure, Security, and Compliance.
- Provide deep technical leadership and mentorship, elevating system design quality and engineering rigor across teams.
- Proven track record of architecting and scaling platform systems that support multiple downstream products and teams.
- Exceptional system design skills, with the ability to debug and resolve complex issues across services and architectural boundaries.
- Experience building internal developer platforms or shared services adopted broadly across an organization.
Requirements
- Additionally, Circle participates in the E-Verify Program in certain locations, as required by law.
Compensation
- $285,000 - $352,500
Benefits
- Should you require accommodations or assistance in our interview process because of a disability, please reach out to accommodations@circle.com for support.
Company info
- What you'll be part of: Circle is committed to visibility and stability in everything we do.
- What You'll Be Part Of Circle is committed to transparency, stability, and trust in everything we do.
- Base Pay Range: $285,000 - $352,500 We are an equal opportunity employer.
Equal opportunity
- We are an equal opportunity employer.
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