Senior Software Engineer, CircleCI

$165-255k

Salary dependent on US location. Canada Base Pay Range $155,000—$215,000 CAD. United Kingdom Base Pay Range £94,500—£130,000 GBP

React

TypeScript

Datadog

Senior and Expert level

Remote from Canada, UK, US

Continuous integration and deployment services

Open for applications

Continuous integration and deployment services

201-500 employees

B2BInternal toolsSaaS

Open for applications

$165-255k

Salary dependent on US location. Canada Base Pay Range $155,000—$215,000 CAD. United Kingdom Base Pay Range £94,500—£130,000 GBP

React

TypeScript

Datadog

Senior and Expert level

Remote from Canada, UK, US

201-500 employees

B2BInternal toolsSaaS

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.

Job

Company

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.

Steph

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

39% female employees

-19% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.8)

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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