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Join Circle as a Distinguished Software Engineer to lead technical direction and drive complex engineering initiatives in a remote-first environment, shaping scalable architectures and mentoring senior engineers.
Circle (NYSE: CRCL) is one of the world’s leading internet financial platform companies, building the foundation of a more open, global economy through digital assets, payment applications, and programmable blockchain infrastructure. Circle’s platform includes the world’s largest regulated stablecoin network anchored by USDC, Circle Payments Network for global money movement, and Arc, an enterprise-grade blockchain designed to become the Economic OS for the internet. Enterprises, financial institutions, and developers use Circle to power trusted, internet-scale financial innovation. Circle is committed to visibility and stability in everything we do, expanding into some of the world's strongest jurisdictions. Speed and efficiency are motivators for success and employees live by company values: High Integrity, Future Forward, Multistakeholder, Mindful, and Driven by Excellence. We have built a flexible work environment where new ideas are encouraged and everyone is a stakeholder. Engineering at Circle is at the epicenter of the emerging internet of money, where value can move globally, nearly instantly, and more efficiently than legacy settlement systems. This new internet layer unlocks powerful opportunities across payments, commerce, and markets, helping raise global economic prosperity and advance financial inclusion. Our infrastructure—including USDC, a blockchain-based digital dollar—enables businesses, institutions, and developers to build on a pivotal evolution in money and technology. Circlers operate in a distributed, remote-first environment that values flexibility, diverse perspectives, and shared ownership.
- Drive the long-term technical direction of Circle’s platform and core systems.
- Shape architectures that scale across products, teams, and regulatory environments.
- Lead complex, cross-cutting engineering initiatives that span multiple organizations.
- Act as a trusted technical authority, setting a high bar for system reliability, performance, security, and developer experience.
- Mentor senior engineers and contribute to Circle’s engineering standards, culture, and technical strategy.
- 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.
- Lead cross-team, cross-functional technical initiatives in partnership with Engineering, Product, Infrastructure, Security, and Compliance.
- Provide deep technical leadership and mentorship.
- Identify and address platform-wide technical debt, architectural risks, and systemic bottlenecks.
- Influence engineering-wide best practices in observability, reliability, performance, and developer experience.
- Serve as a trusted technical advisor across the company.
- Champion innovation, knowledge sharing, and engineering excellence.
- 15+ years of software engineering experience.
- Deep expertise designing and operating large-scale distributed systems.
- Proven track record of architecting and scaling platform systems that support multiple downstream products and teams.
- Ability to set long-term technical direction while making pragmatic, high-impact execution decisions.
- Extensive experience operating critical, highly available systems with strong observability, reliability, and performance practices.
- Exceptional system design skills.
- Ability to debug and resolve complex issues across services and architectural boundaries.
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Demonstrated influence on technical direction beyond immediate teams.
- Experience building internal developer platforms or shared services adopted broadly across an organization.
- Familiarity working in regulated, compliance-heavy, or security-sensitive environments.
- Track record of shaping engineering-wide practices, tools, or standards as a recognized technical leader.