Senior Quality Platform Engineer

About Us

Circle is building the world’s leading all-in-one platform for online communities. We make it possible for creators, coaches, educators, and businesses to bring together their audience with engaging discussions, live streams, events, chat, courses, and payments — all in one place, all under their own brand.

We’re proud to be a fully remote company of around 200 (and growing!) team members from 30+ countries around the world. We seek exceptional individuals around the world, set them up to do the best work of their lives, and in turn, create a meaningful impact in their own lives. We don't track hours, but we do manage for high expectations very closely. We collaborate across time zones, are highly async, and like to document a lot.

Twice a year, we bring the whole company together in beautiful places around the world for our company offsites. So far, we’ve hosted offsites in Turkey, Portugal, Mexico, Thailand, Colombia, Italy, Ireland, and more, with still more to come!

Check out our Careers page for more about working at Circle .

About the role

We’re moving beyond traditional testing. Quality at our organization is not a gate; it’s a platform.

As a Senior Quality Platform Engineer , you will design, build, and maintain the internal tooling, automation, workflows, and quality infrastructure that empower teams to ship faster, safer, and with higher confidence.

This role sits at the intersection of software engineering , developer experience , and quality strategy . You won’t just write tests — you’ll build the systems that ensure quality is scalable, observable, measurable, and baked into every stage of development.

If you’re passionate about enabling teams, reducing friction, and approaching quality like a product, this role is for you.

What you'll be doing

Platform & Tooling

• 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.

Developer Experience

• 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).

Reliability & Quality Intelligence

• Build systems that convert quality noise into actionable ins