
Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform
Circle
Full time
Software Development
Canada
Hiring from: Canada
Circle is a financial technology company at the epicenter of the emerging internet of money, where value can finally travel like other digital data — globally, nearly instantly and less expensively than legacy settlement systems. This ground-breaking new internet layer opens up previously unimaginable possibilities for payments, commerce and markets that can help raise global economic prosperity and enhance inclusion. Our infrastructure – including USDC, a blockchain-based dollar – helps businesses, institutions and developers harness these breakthroughs and capitalize on this major turning point in the evolution of money and technology.
What You’ll Be Part Of
Circle is committed to visibility and stability in everything we do. As we grow as an organization, we're expanding into some of the world's strongest jurisdictions. Speed and efficiency are motivators for our success and our employees live by our company values: High Integrity, Future Forward, Multistakeholder, Mindful, and Driven by Excellence. We have built a flexible and diverse work environment where new ideas are encouraged and everyone is a stakeholder.
What You’ll Be Responsible For
As a member of the Data Platform Engineering team, you own the core Data/ML platform, data ingestion and processing, ETL/ELT pipelines, data governance and security compliance, data analytics and visualization tooling, data modeling and warehousing. These components power our Product, Engineering, Analytics, and Data Science teams by enabling experimentation, operational excellence, and actionable insights to accelerate business growth.
What You'll Work On
Senior Software Engineer (III)
Includes All Senior Data Engineer Requirements, Plus
Starting pay is determined by various factors, including but not limited to: relevant experience, skill set, qualifications, and other business and organizational needs. Please note that compensation ranges may differ for candidates in other locations.
Base Pay Range
Should you require accommodations or assistance in our interview process because of a disability, please reach out to [email protected] for support. We respect your privacy and will connect with you separately from our interview process to accommodate your needs.
What You’ll Be Part Of
Circle is committed to visibility and stability in everything we do. As we grow as an organization, we're expanding into some of the world's strongest jurisdictions. Speed and efficiency are motivators for our success and our employees live by our company values: High Integrity, Future Forward, Multistakeholder, Mindful, and Driven by Excellence. We have built a flexible and diverse work environment where new ideas are encouraged and everyone is a stakeholder.
What You’ll Be Responsible For
As a member of the Data Platform Engineering team, you own the core Data/ML platform, data ingestion and processing, ETL/ELT pipelines, data governance and security compliance, data analytics and visualization tooling, data modeling and warehousing. These components power our Product, Engineering, Analytics, and Data Science teams by enabling experimentation, operational excellence, and actionable insights to accelerate business growth.
What You'll Work On
- 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 the data ingestion framework to source the required data for various analytical and reporting needs, which include onchain data, internal system data, and partner data.
- Be a domain expert in data warehousing, modeling, pipelines, 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 training and management, and experiment execution.
- 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.
Senior Software Engineer (III)
- 4+ years in software engineering for data systems.
- Experience in scalable infrastructure to support batch, micro-batch or streaming processing
- Experience in business domains such as payment systems, credit cards, bank transfers, or blockchains.
- Experience in data governance and provenance.
- Internal knowledge of open-source data technologies.
- 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.
Includes All Senior Data Engineer Requirements, Plus
- 7+ years in software engineering experience for large-scale and complex data systems
- Led 5+ person teams in architecture and system design.
- Expertise in ETL/ELT, warehousing, feature engineering, modeling, or ingestion.
- Ability to identify high-impact projects independently.
- Strong experience in:
- Data warehouse architecture and design.
- Integration of the data stack with other tools/services.
- implementing data quality checks.
- Experience with cryptography, blockchain operations, and on-chain data analysis.
- Experience in ML workflows, feature engineering, model training pipelines. and data validation
Starting pay is determined by various factors, including but not limited to: relevant experience, skill set, qualifications, and other business and organizational needs. Please note that compensation ranges may differ for candidates in other locations.
Base Pay Range
- Senior Software Engineer (III): $147,500 - $195,000
- Staff Software Engineer (IV): $172,500 - $227,500
Should you require accommodations or assistance in our interview process because of a disability, please reach out to [email protected] for support. We respect your privacy and will connect with you separately from our interview process to accommodate your needs.
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