Senior Software Engineer, CircleCI

Experiences

CA$129-161k

Salary is benchmarked on Canadian rates and may vary by other locations

React
MongoDB
TypeScript
JavaScript
Go
Postgres
RabbitMQ
Clojure
Mid and Senior level
Toronto
CircleCI

Continuous integration and deployment services

Open for applications

CircleCI

Continuous integration and deployment services

201-500 employees

B2BInternal toolsSaaS

Open for applications

CA$129-161k

Salary is benchmarked on Canadian rates and may vary by other locations

React
MongoDB
TypeScript
JavaScript
Go
Postgres
RabbitMQ
Clojure
Mid and Senior level
Toronto

201-500 employees

B2BInternal toolsSaaS

Company mission

To manage change so software teams can innovate faster. They want to empower technology-driven organizations to do their best work – and make engineering teams more productive and innovative by managing change.

Role

Who you are

  • 3+ years of professional experience building and debugging distributed systems in production environments
  • You are a Full Stack Engineer with an emphasis on frontend development while maintaining a robust backend expertise. You bring enthusiasm to all aspects, from enhancing UX to crafting API designs with meticulous attention and respect. We value versatility over specialization, making T-shaped ideal for these roles
  • You’re interested in learning new languages and technologies. We use JavaScript(TypeScript/React), Go and Clojure, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and RabbitMQ, but it’s okay if you haven’t yet. You can find more details on our tech stack here
  • You've developed skills in navigating and crafting the dynamics of a rapidly growing company with a remote-first culture: quickly adapting when priorities change and making conscious tradeoffs with incomplete information

What the job involves

  • As a team member, you’ll own crucial microservices and build features at the heart of our platform
  • Simplify and optimize existing services and scale our systems as we rapidly grow and evolve
  • Write sustainable, testable, high-quality, high-performance code
  • Support, maintain, and debug microservices in a complex distributed system
  • Work with a team to establish and maintain standards for front-end development, while improving the platform as a whole
  • Foster a culture of observability and monitoring: use operational data to help your team increase the stability, performance, and usage of our systems
  • Partner with members of a multi-functional team and other collaborators to set the direction of our product: learn about our business problems, explore solutions, weigh design tradeoffs, write and prioritize effective user stories to deliver maximum value in a balanced, incremental fashion

Our take

Engineering has seen the rise of agile, containerisation and DevOps over the last few years. As a result, the idea of continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) has grown to be an important part of the engineering space. CircleCI is one company that taps into this field, offering a lightweight and open service.

There are now a lot more companies that have a culture of continuous delivery. CircleCI specifically helps automate all the steps that occur between the time developers make changes to the code and when the application gets in front of the customer. The company has a strong tailwind from this macro trend and their product is loved by engineers, putting them in a strong place to build a strong business.

Services in the sector have grown constricted and cost-heavy, but in 2022, CircleCI debuted a free tier service for engineering teams in a move away from this. By offering flexibility across an increased number of major platforms, including Docker, Windows, and MacOS, the company works towards its ultimate aim to empower technology-driven organisations.

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Insights

Top investors

Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

39% female employees

-19% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)

May 2021

$100m

SERIES F

Apr 2020

$100m

SERIES E

Total funding: $315m

Company benefits

  • Whether it’s a peaceful home or a house full of kids, roommates, or pets, your office can be where you need it. CircleCI has been a remote-first company since the beginning. We’ll ensure you stay well-connected with your teammates every day through tools like Zoom, Slack, Confluence, Google Suite, and GitHub. We also provide a home office stipend to help you do your best work
  • Regardless of location, we prioritize the health and wellness of our employees and their families. In addition to unlimited PTO, we offer generous parental leave and benefits that can cover employees and dependents up to 100%. We also offer quarterly wellness days, a free Calm subscription, wellness reimbursement, and Cleo for new parents
  • At CircleCI, employees have ample opportunity to learn new skills, including project-based learning and presentations from our colleagues. Udemy is available for on-demand learning and we offer an annual stipend for personal development outside of CircleCI. Your continued professional development is important to us because it’s important to you
  • Unlimited paid time off policy
  • Work from home opportunities

Company values

  • Inclusive, empathetic, and respectful: The diversity of our teammates and our customers makes us stronger. We actively look to bring more, not fewer, viewpoints into our decision-making
  • Open and transparent: Information and access is everything. We are a globally-distributed company, and we empower our teams to make decisions and take action
  • Ambitious and impact-driven: We work on things that matter. We focus on outcomes, not output. We believe in setting the bar high, accepting the risk of failure, and stretching to meet our goals
  • Quick and continuous: We value quickly iterating and shipping, then refining and adjusting, versus trying to do everything at once. We opt for quick experimentation, getting things over the line, and continuously learning
  • Resilient: Rapid recovery is in our DNA. We provide a mission-critical service that is deeply intertwined in a broad ecosystem for a wide range of customers. We have the mindset, systems, and processes in place to recover rapidly
  • Aligned, empowered, and accountable: We empower teams and individuals closest to the problem or opportunity, and trust them to determine and execute the best path forward

Company HQ

The East Cut, San Francisco, CA

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Leadership

Joined CircleCI as COO. Serial entrepreneur, founding Distiller (acquired by CircleCI) and Copious.

Paul Biggar

(Founder)

Currently Founder and CEO of Darklang. Previously Principal Engineer at Lookout, Senior Compiler Engineer at Mozilla Corporation and Founder at NewsLabs Inc.

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