Circle · 17 hours ago
Staff Software Engineer, Data Platform
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$195K/yr - $258K/yr
7+ years expCircle is one of the world’s leading internet financial platform companies, building the foundation of a more open, global economy through digital assets and programmable blockchain infrastructure. The Staff Software Engineer in the Data Platform team will own the core data warehouse platform and data ingestion processes, enabling operational excellence and actionable insights for various teams within the company.
BankingBlockchainCryptocurrencyFinancial Services
Responsibilities
Design, build, and operate data platform services (warehousing, orchestration, and catalogs). Continuously enhance platform operations by improving monitoring, performance, reliability, and resource optimization
Design, build and maintain batch and streaming data ingestion framework to source the required data for analytical and operational needs, which include onchain data, internal system data, and partner data
Be a domain expert in streaming processing, data pipelines, data warehousing and quality. Work closely across multiple stakeholders–including Product, Engineering, Data Science, Security and Compliance teams–on data contract modeling, data lifecycle management, governance and regulatory/legal compliance
Provide ML data platform capabilities for AI/Data Science teams to perform data preparation, model preparation and serving, and performance monitoring
Develop and maintain core services and libraries to enhance critical platform functionalities, such as cataloging data assets and lineage, tracking data versioning and quality, managing auto-backfilling, implementing access controls on data assets
Qualification
Required
4+ years of software engineering experience building data-intensive systems
Hands-on experience designing and operating scalable batch, micro-batch, or streaming data pipelines
Experience in business domains such as payment systems, credit cards, bank transfers, or blockchains
Familiarity with data governance, lineage, and provenance concepts
Strong understanding of open-source data technologies and cloud-native data platforms
Ability to tackle complex and ambiguous problems
Self-starter who takes ownership and enjoys moving at a fast pace
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across multiple remote teams, share ideas and present concepts effectively
7+ years in software engineering experience for large-scale and complex data systems
Proven technical leadership in architecture and system design, influencing designs across multiple teams
Deep expertise in one or more of: streaming systems, data warehousing, data modeling, or large-scale ingestion platforms
Ability to identify high-impact technical opportunities independently and drive them from concept to production
Strong experience in: Data platforms integrated with downstream consumers, tools, and services
Data quality, validation, and observability mechanisms across pipelines
Comfortable making and defending long-term architectural tradeoffs in ambiguous environments
Preferred
Experience with streaming frameworks such as Apache Flink or Google Cloud Dataflow
Experience with NoSQL databases such as Bigtable, Cassandra
Hands-on Experience taking an operational, data-intensive application from initial design to production (0→1), or scaling and operating it at production scale
Experience developing real-time analytics or near-real-time decisioning systems
Company
Circle
Circle helps businesses and developers utilize stablecoins for payments and online commerce.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$2.44BKey Investors
ARK Investment ManagementCoinbaseAlameda Research
2025-11-19Post Ipo Secondary· $17.7M
2025-08-14Post Ipo Secondary· $1.04B
2025-08-14Post Ipo Equity· $260M
Leadership Team
Jared Favole
Chief of Staff to CEO
Jeremy Allaire
Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO
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