This role pays less than
57%
of similar roles. Most pay
$147,200–$217,500
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$179k
versus about
$182k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
Employer
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
16 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$195,000–$257,500
across 15 roles with salary data.
As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Infra Ops on the platform team, you will design, build, and operate secure, scalable infrastructure for critical digital assets, AI, and application workloads. You will manage Kubernetes platforms across hybrid and public-cloud environments while utilizing Terraform to create reusable modules and automated infrastructure as code. Your daily responsibilities include developing backend services and internal tools using Go, Python, or JavaScript/TypeScript to eliminate manual work. You will partner with product teams to translate requirements into resilient designs, improve CI/CD pipelines, and establish observability practices involving metrics, logs, and traces. The role focuses on solving complex distributed-systems problems to enhance reliability, performance, and security for high-availability systems. You will also manage incident response, perform root-cause analysis, and implement SLIs and SLOs within a regulated environment.
What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn?
Median $187000 from 131 postings across 37 companies.
Design, build, and operate secure, scalable Kubernetes platforms across hybrid and public-cloud environments.
Create reusable infrastructure as code using Terraform to ensure repeatable and governed changes.
Develop backend services and automation tools in Go, Python, or TypeScript to eliminate manual work.
Translate workload requirements into technical designs for reliability, performance, security, and cost-effectiveness.
Improve the production lifecycle through CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and progressive delivery strategies.
Define and evolve observability practices including metrics, logs, traces, and alerting dashboards.
Manage incident response, perform root-cause analysis, and lead blameless postmortems to drive corrective actions.
Establish reliability targets using SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and disaster-recovery testing.
What we're looking for
5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Infrastructure Engineering, or a related software engineering role supporting production systems.
Deep, hands-on expertise in designing, operating, securing, and troubleshooting production Kubernetes clusters and containerized workloads at scale.
Strong Terraform experience including authoring reusable modules and delivering infrastructure changes through automated workflows.
Production software development experience in Go, Python, or JavaScript/TypeScript to build backend services and automation tools.
Experience with cloud infrastructure and core networking concepts such as IAM, DNS, load balancing, and secure connectivity.
Strong observability and troubleshooting skills using metrics, logs, traces, and alerting to diagnose complex systems.
Experience defining and operating against SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, incident management, and disaster recovery practices.
Experience applying AI-assisted tooling to engineering or operations workflows (preferred).
Site Reliability Engineering
AWS
Kubernetes
Python
Go
Java
Infrastructure as Code
CI/CD
CloudWatch
Splunk
Datadog
Dynatrace
Bash
PowerShell
FedRAMP
Distributed Systems
Load Balancing
DNS