Circle · 2 days ago
Senior Quality Platform Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$120K/yr - $130K/yrCircle is building an all-in-one platform for online communities, enabling creators and businesses to engage their audiences. As a Senior Quality Platform Engineer, you will design and maintain internal tooling and quality infrastructure, ensuring scalable and measurable quality throughout the development process.
AppsCommunitiesContentContent Creators
Responsibilities
Develop and maintain the Quality Platform: frameworks, libraries, pipelines, and integrations that enable high-quality delivery
Build reusable, language-agnostic automation libraries and internal SDKs
Own CI/CD quality gates, test orchestration, and smart execution logic (e.g., test selection, caching, parallelisation)
Implement and maintain recording/playback tools, contract testing, visual regression engines, and observability hooks
Handle AI & Innovation for Quality Engineering workflows
Improve feedback loops in local dev, PRs, staging, and production
Create self-service tooling for engineers to generate tests, diagnose failures, and validate changes quickly
Embed quality signals into engineering workflows (e.g., risk scoring, flakiness insights, coverage intelligence)
Build systems that convert quality noise into actionable insights
Own metrics dashboards: flakiness, failure cause classification, performance trends, release confidence
Partner with our Infrastructure team to implement resilience tests (chaos, reliability gates, SLIs/SLOs)
Define and codify standards that scale across teams (naming conventions, folder structure, selector strategies, logging)
Turn rules into automated guardrails rather than documentation
Work closely with our Infrastructure team to ensure safe automation practices, secrets handling, and permissions
Create 'golden paths' for developers: Out-of-the-box test setup, Generated mocks & fixtures, Recommended patterns and linting rules, Fully managed test environments
Qualification
Required
Strong alignment with our values, find our values on our career page if you haven't read up on them yet
You are proficient in English (spoken, written, and reading) at a CEFR Level C2 / ILR Level 5
Strong experience in at least one modern testing framework (Playwright, Cypress, Jest, JUnit, etc.)
Solid software engineering background (TypeScript, JavaScript, Java, Python or similar)
Familiarity with Ruby (We use this in our backend systems)
Strong experience with Ruby to build or interact with backend services
Experience building internal tooling, utilities, or engineering platforms
Deep understanding of CI/CD (Buildkite, GitHub Actions, GitLab, CircleCI)
Knowledge of cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure) and containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes)
Strong understanding of architectural patterns
Experience with quality telemetry, observability, or monitoring
Experience with Performance, Load testing and tooling
Shift-left and shift-right testing practices
Testability-first thinking
Ability to design high-leverage systems rather than isolated tests
Understanding of resilience and reliability engineering principles
Preferred
Experience with AI-assisted testing tools or test generation frameworks
Knowledge of VCR/web mocking proxies, contract testing, and API schema validation
Exposure to static analysis tools and code quality scanners
Experience with platform engineering in any form (DevEx, SRE, Internal Platforms)
Benefits
Fully remote: work from anywhere in the world!
Paid time away: all employees are given 35 days of PTO annually. We also offer a paid sabbatical after 5 years.
Generous U.S. benchmarked compensation and startup equity no matter where you are in the world.*
Awesome medical coverage with 100% coverage for you and your family, or medical reimbursement options where applicable!*
Parental leave for parents expanding their family, or just starting one.
Home office stipend to help you get up and running.
Learning & development stipend to help you level up your professional skills.
Annual bonus potential for roles that don't already receive variable income or commission.
Company retreats: Twice a year, the Circle team gets together for a fully paid company retreat in incredible places around the world!
Company
Circle
Circle is a community platform that brings together the creators' discussions, memberships, and content.
Founded in 2019
51-200 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$30.4MKey Investors
Tiger Global ManagementNotation Capital
2024-03-12Series B
2021-11-15Series A· $24.9M
2021-06-01Series A
Leadership Team
Sid Yadav
Co-founder & CEO
Andrew Guttormsen
Co-founder & Chief Revenue Officer
Recent News
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