Senior Software Engineer, CircleCI
CA$156-196k
Continuous integration and deployment services
Open for applications
Continuous integration and deployment services
201-500 employees
Open for applications
CA$156-196k
201-500 employees
Company mission
To manage change so software teams can innovate faster, empowering technology-driven organizations to do their best work – and making engineering teams more productive and innovative.
Role
Who you are
- AI-native engineering practices. You use AI tools daily and can speak to what you've built, where they changed your approach, and where they fall short
- A track record of shipping. You've built something real and put it in front of users. 5+ years of production full-stack experience, with latency, responsiveness, and reliability treated as design concerns, not afterthoughts
- Full-stack depth. Strong React and TypeScript. Comfortable owning backend services in Go: API design, data modeling, service integration
- System design. You lead architectural decisions on complex systems. You make conscious tradeoffs, document your reasoning, and create the foundation others build on
- Adaptability. You don't just thrive in ambiguity, you reduce it for others. You turn unclear requirements into a direction the team can execute on
- Technical leadership. You mentor engineers, give direct feedback on technical direction, and raise the quality bar through how you engage in reviews and design discussions, not just what you ship
What the job involves
- Build AI-natively. AI is how we work. It's not a productivity layer on top of engineering, but the default starting point for how problems get approached and solved
- Set technical direction. You define the approach others build from. When the problem is complex or the answer isn't obvious, you're the person who leads the design discussion, writes the ADR, and makes the call
- Invent new interfaces. Software delivery is being reinvented. Pipelines run autonomously, generate fixes, and surface results that need human judgment. The tools developers use to understand, trust, and act on that work don't exist yet. You'll define what they look like and establish the patterns the team builds on
- Own the full stack. Build features end-to-end in Go, React, and TypeScript. You don't hand off at a layer boundary. You own the outcome
- Obsess over craft. Reliability and responsiveness are design concerns, not afterthoughts. Care about how the interface holds up when stakes are high and hold your team to that same standard
- Champion observability. Use Honeycomb, Datadog, and Rollbar to understand and improve your systems. Operational data drives stability, not just incident response
- Close gaps and fix the conditions that created them. You'll notice gaps and close them. When a gap reflects something broken in how the team works, you fix that too
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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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
May 2021
$100m
SERIES F
Apr 2020
$100m
SERIES E
Total funding: $315m
Company benefits
- Remote-first company
- Home office stipend
- Unlimited PTO
- Generous parental leave
- Health benefits that can cover employees and dependents up to 100%
- Quarterly wellness days, a free Calm subscription, wellness reimbursement, and Cleo for new parents
- Opportunities to learn new skills, including project-based learning and presentations from our colleagues
- Udemy for on-demand learning, and an annual stipend for personal development outside of CircleCI
Company HQ
The East Cut, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Jim Rose
(CEO)Joined CircleCI as COO. Serial entrepreneur, founding Distiller (acquired by CircleCI) and Copious.
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