[Remote] Distinguished Software Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Circle is one of the world’s leading internet financial platform companies, building the foundation of a more open, global economy through digital assets and payment applications. As a Distinguished Engineer at Circle, you will drive the long-term technical direction of Circle’s platform and core systems, shaping architectures that scale across products, teams, and regulatory environments.
Responsibilities
- 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 used across Circle’s product ecosystem
- Lead cross-team, cross-functional technical initiatives in partnership with Engineering, Product, Infrastructure, Security, and Compliance
- Provide deep technical leadership and mentorship, elevating system design quality and engineering rigor across teams
- 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, contributing to major technical decisions and long-term platform evolution
- Champion innovation, knowledge sharing, and engineering excellence as a senior technical thought leader at Circle
Skills
- 15+ years of software engineering experience, including 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, with the ability to debug and resolve complex issues across services and architectural boundaries
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, with 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
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