Senior Software Engineer - CLO

Circle

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Work type
Remote
Location
San Francisco, CA
Salary
$152,500–$205,000 / yr
Posted
7 days ago
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Above market

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This role pays more than 73% of similar roles. Most pay $149,500–$184,900 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $179k versus about $167k for comparable roles.

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About Circle

Circle is a global financial technology firm and the principal operator of USD Coin (USDC), a leading stablecoin, providing cross-border payments and digital currency infrastructure for businesses. Industry: Financial Technology & Digital Currency

Circle currently has 25 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $183,750–$230,833 across 24 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer - CLO

As a Senior Software Engineer - CLO, you will join the team responsible for building and maintaining shared platform capabilities, common libraries, and infrastructure to enable secure software delivery. Your daily responsibilities include building and operating scalable microservices, designing secure cloud infrastructure, and improving CI/CD pipelines. You will specifically engineer features for an autonomous coding-agent orchestration platform, integrating AI-enabled tooling into developer workflows while ensuring reliability, observability, and cost management. The role requires proficiency in Golang, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, or Rust, along with hands-on experience in AWS, GCP, and Kubernetes. You must possess a strong understanding of distributed systems, RESTful API design, and SQL database modeling to solve complex problems regarding production workflow orchestration and platform reliability.

What does a Software Engineer earn in California?

Median $214500 from 1193 postings across 76 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Build and operate scalable microservices, platform capabilities, and shared engineering libraries.
  • Design, deploy, and maintain secure cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes-based services.
  • Improve CI/CD pipelines, developer workflows, and software delivery automation.
  • Engineer and operate the autonomous coding-agent orchestration platform and AI-enabled tooling.
  • Implement observability, monitoring, incident response, and operational best practices for production systems.
  • Partner with Product and Engineering teams to design resilient architectures and improve platform reliability.
  • Manage security, access controls, auditability, and cost optimization across cloud infrastructure and AI workflows.

What we're looking for

  • 3–6 years of professional software development experience using Golang, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, or Rust.
  • Hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native applications on AWS or GCP, including Kubernetes-based infrastructure.
  • Experience engineering and operating production workflow orchestration systems, developer platforms, or autonomous agent solutions.
  • Experience integrating AI capabilities through APIs, SDKs, or workflow tooling while applying operational guardrails.
  • Strong understanding of distributed systems, RESTful API design, SQL database design, schema modeling, and query optimization.
  • Demonstrated commitment to writing clean, maintainable, well-tested code that supports continuous delivery and operational excellence.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Excellent communication skills and a self-motivated growth mindset (preferred).

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