Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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 (and growing!) team members from 30+ countries around the world. We seek exceptional individuals around the world, set them up to do the best work of their lives, and in turn, create a meaningful impact in their own lives. We don't track hours, but we do manage for high expectations very closely. We collaborate across time zones, are highly async, and like to document a lot. Twice a year, we bring the whole company together in beautiful places around the world for our company offsites. So far, we’ve hosted offsites in Turkey, Portugal, Mexico, Thailand, Colombia, Italy, Ireland, and more, with still more to come! Check out our Careers page for more about working at Circle. About the role We're growing fast — and so is the demand on our infrastructure. We're hiring 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 as usage climbs. This is a highly impactful, hands-on role for someone who thrives in high-growth environments and wants to build for the long term. 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 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 3+ years of experience in a Site Reliability, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering role 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 Bonus points Experience with SOC2 compliance or building secure infrastructure You’ve helped scale an early-stage product to 1M+ monthly active users Experience with Clickhouse or similar technologies $130,000 - $140,000 USD per year The cash compensation range shown is a starting point. In addition to equity, benefits and perks, your cash compensation is subject to an annual review and increase on a once per year basis. The fun stuff Fully remote: work from anywhere in the world! Autonomy and trust to do your job: we care about outcomes over everything else. 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 arou ... (truncated, view full listing at source)