CircleCI
CI/CD
SeniorSoftwareEngineer
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“Senior Software Engineer at CircleCI. Skills: AI-native engineering practices, Set technical direction, Invent new interfaces, Own the full stack, Obsess over craft, Champion observability, Close gaps and fix conditions. Build AI-natively. Set technical direction”
Industry & Context.
approach and solve problems; complex systems; unclear requirements
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5+ years of production full-stack experience, React, TypeScript, Go, API design, data modeling, service integration, System design, Adaptability, Technical leadership
Nice to Have
AI tools daily, Kubernetes a plus
What You'll Do.
Set technical direction
Invent new interfaces
Champion observability
Close gaps and fix conditions
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
mentor engineers; give direct feedback on technical direction; raise the quality bar through how you engage in reviews and design discussions
Process & Methodology
lead the design discussion, writes the ADR, makes the call, turn unclear requirements into a direction the team can execute on
Full Job Description
About CircleCI Engineering CI/CD has been solved. Now it's being reinvented. AI agents don't just run pipelines. They write code, trigger builds, interpret failures, and propose fixes. The interfaces that developers use to understand and trust that work don't exist yet. We're building them. At CircleCI, our guiding principles aren't posters on a wall. We learn fast: we run experiments, accept failure, and scale what works. We think like the customer: every decision connects back to the developer sitting in front of a failing build at 2 am. We own the outcome: not just our slice of it, but the whole thing. If that's how you already work, you'll fit here. Team-Agnostic Placement We don't hire for a team. We hire for CircleCI. Where you land depends on where your strengths create the most leverage, and we figure that out together. You might own the CI pipeline experience, deploy and release tooling, notification infrastructure, monetization flows, AI agent surfaces, or the foundational web platform. The through line across all of it is the same: full-stack ownership, a high bar for craft, and work that directly shapes how tens of thousands of developers experience CircleCI every day. What You'll Do 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 han
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