Jobs at Circle

Lead detection and response efforts: build detections, manage SIEM and orchestration tooling, deploy AI in SOC workflows, investigate incidents across AWS/EKS environments, support threat modeling and vulnerability scanning, and take on-call shifts.

Lead payments-focused data science work: build foundational datasets, metrics, and scalable analytics; analyze customer and transaction behavior (including onchain data); conduct strategic analyses to identify product and revenue opportunities; build reporting, dashboards, and automation; and influence product and business strategy through data storytelling to senior stakeholders.

The Senior Analyst in AML KYC will conduct detailed customer onboarding, monitor client relationships for compliance, and update KYC records while utilizing AI tools for efficiency.

Lead end-to-end KYC periodic reviews for higher-risk corporate customers, perform enhanced due diligence, document findings, escalate red flags, collaborate with internal teams, and monitor industry money laundering and fraud trends.

Own the vision, strategy, and execution for Circle's Global Treasury Management product. Define roadmap from MVP to GA, improve capital efficiency and settlement speed, build reporting/reconciliation and API/ERP integrations, establish enterprise-grade operations, and partner cross-functionally to monetize and scale the product based on customer discovery and market analysis.

Provide strategic legal support for the Arc blockchain, advising on design, regulatory compliance, and risk management while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

This role involves defining data reliability strategies, establishing company-wide standards for data quality, and leading cross-functional data engineering initiatives at Circle.

Lead end-to-end KYC lifecycle for complex corporate customers: onboarding, periodic and event-driven reviews, enhanced due diligence, monitoring, reporting findings, recommending risk-based actions, driving workflow standardization, and supporting KYC tooling and metrics.

Design, build, and operate secure, scalable Kubernetes platforms and infrastructure as code (Terraform). Develop backend services and automation (Go, Python, JS/TS), improve CI/CD and observability, run on-call and incident response, define SLIs/SLOs and disaster recovery, embed security and compliance, mentor team members, and partner with product and engineering to raise reliability, performance, and cost-efficiency across hybrid and public-cloud environments.

Design, build, and operate scalable blockchain infrastructure and Kubernetes platforms. Implement IaC, CI/CD, AI-powered automation, monitoring, incident response, and reliability improvements. Mentor engineers, lead cross-functional initiatives, and support network launches, upgrades, and production troubleshooting in a follow-the-sun on-call rotation.

Lead origination, evaluation, structuring, negotiation, and integration of acquisitions, strategic investments, and JVs. Maintain deal pipeline, coordinate cross-functional diligence and approvals, produce recommendation memos and board materials, and provide strategic competitive intelligence and mentorship to the corporate development team.

Lead growth for Arc Network and Circle platform products by driving developer and user adoption, designing growth loops, building developer-facing tooling (APIs/SDKs), coordinating cross-functional launches, ensuring regulatory alignment, and scaling ecosystem integrations across chains and protocols.

Lead strategy and GTM for agentic commerce on Arc, driving ecosystem partnerships, product alignment, and adoption of USDC and Circle Agent Stack across AI builders, platforms, and enterprises.

Lead StableFX growth, defining go-to-market strategy across issuers, makers, and takers. Drive customer segmentation, partnerships, commercialization, and product-informed market initiatives to scale liquidity, adoption, and institutional issuer acquisition.

Lead ecosystem and distribution partner strategy for Arc Earn use cases. Source, structure, and close fintech, neobank, wallet, and CEX partnerships; drive integrations, launches, performance metrics, and product requirements while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Provide transactional legal support for Circle's global capital markets business, drafting and negotiating complex crypto, fintech, and capital markets agreements (exchanges, market makers, liquidity, collateral, tokenized assets). Support Arc's capital markets go-to-market, create contract templates and playbooks, streamline contracting workflows, advise cross-functional partners, and stay current on crypto, stablecoins, and blockchain regulatory developments to enable commercial partnerships and revenue opportunities.

Design, build, and maintain blockchain and payments infrastructure; develop scalable microservices and secure RESTful APIs to transfer value across blockchain and banking protocols; integrate with banks and fintech; own system design, testing, deployment, and troubleshooting; ensure reliability, code quality, and strong test coverage while collaborating with product and engineering teams.

Lead and manage software engineering teams: run agile processes, design and ship secure scalable APIs and services, guide architecture, manage technical debt, recruit and mentor engineers, and align work with company objectives.

Lead Circle's global fraud risk program by defining strategy, frameworks, controls, and analytics. Oversee investigations, regulatory reporting, detection systems, KPIs, and cross-functional embedding of fraud risk management across products and jurisdictions.

Lead long-term technical direction and architecture for Circle's core platform. Drive cross-team initiatives, mentor senior engineers, improve observability, reliability, and performance, and address platform-wide technical debt while influencing engineering standards and developer experience across the company.