About Us
Circle is building the world’s leading all-in-one platform for online communities. We make it possible for creators, coaches, educators, and businesses to bring together their audience with engaging discussions, live streams, events, chat, courses, and payments — all in one place, all under their own brand.
We’re proud to be a fully remote company of around 200 team members from 30+ countries. We collaborate across time zones, are highly async, and maintain high expectations for our work.
About the role
We're growing fast and need a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to help us scale Circle’s platform with confidence. You'll play a critical role in keeping our systems fast, reliable, and secure in a high-growth environment.
What you'll be doing
- 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.
What you'll need to be successful
- Proficiency in English 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.
- Practical experience using AI tools to improve engineering productivity.
- Experience helping scale an early-stage product to 1M+ monthly active users.
- Hands-on experience with database operations and optimization.
- Based in North or South America (AMER region).