--- title: 'Staff Software Engineer, Delivery Engineering at CircleCI' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/staff-software-engineer-delivery-engineering-circleci-canada-est-or-vqsr025sbbv9' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-11-03' --- # Staff Software Engineer, Delivery Engineering at CircleCI - **Company:** CircleCI - **Location:** Canada Est OR, United Kingdom - **Compensation:** $125k–$265k - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-10-26 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-03 - **Apply:** http://www.circleci.com/careers/jobs/8882264002/?gh_jid=8882264002 ## 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. ## About Delivery Engineering Delivery Engineering enables CircleCI engineers to deliver quickly, confidently, and securely. We provide the tools and resources that make standard patterns and best practices simple to adopt, and we reduce toil. Our current focus is the agentic software development lifecycle: how changes are found, planned, built, reviewed, merged, and measured as AI agents take on more of the work. We evaluate the harnesses, repository patterns, skills, and agentic tooling available, decide what our teams should standardize on, and build and support the shared tooling other teams depend on. We're a small, very senior team, and everyone on it shapes where we go. Every improvement we make compounds across the organization. ## 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. - Shape how CircleCI builds software with agents. Help define the end-to-end agentic SDLC, from identifying a change through planning, execution, pull request, merge, and measuring impact afterward. Evaluate shared tooling and patterns, and help decide what teams standardize on. - Start from how our teams actually work. Spend time with engineering teams to understand their workflows and where they get stuck. Use what you learn to drive decisions and direction that teams adopt because the work fits how they operate. - Build platforms, not one-offs. Build and support shared tooling that other teams depend on, and own its adoption as much as its delivery. A tool nobody uses isn't done. - Measure what matters. Instrument agent usage and outcomes so we know what improves throughput and quality and what just burns tokens. Treat cost, model choice, and reliability as design concerns. - Make build-vs-buy calls. Evaluate models, vendors, and open-source tools against our needs, and choose the path that gets engineers the most leverage. - Lead through influence. Write the design docs, lead technical discussions across teams, and mentor engineers across the org as they adopt agentic workflows. ## What You'll Bring - Direct experience driving agentic developer experience efforts. You've driven an initiative that changed how an engineering organization builds software with AI agents. You can speak to what you built, how you measured its impact, how you drove adoption, and what didn't work. - Hands-on depth with agentic tooling. You work daily with coding agents, agent harnesses, MCP, and skills or prompt design. You know how to evaluate agent output and reason about model and token economics. - A platform mindset. You've built and supported internal platforms or developer tooling that other engineers build on and rely on, and driven their adoption. - Backend depth in Go. You've owned production backend services in Go, including API design, data modeling, and service integration. - A track record at staff scope. 8+ years of production engineering experience, including technical decisions that spanned multiple teams and accountability for whether they landed. - Decision-making grounded in your users. You build direction by listening first. You turn the needs of many teams into clear tradeoffs, document your reasoning, and bring people along. This role is open to candidates based in Europe or in the Eastern time zone. Sound like you? You've stopped waiting for AI to mature and are already building with it, not as a productivity trick, but as a core part of how you think about problems. You care about the engineers using your tools as much as the code behind them. You're drawn to work where the patterns don't exist yet and the best answer requires you to invent it with the people who'll use it. If that's how you already operate, we want to talk. Canada Base Pay Range $195,000—$265,000 CAD United Kingdom Base Pay Range £125,000—£170,000 GBP We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation. ## About CircleCI CircleCI is the world’s largest continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform, and the hub where code moves from idea to delivery. As one of the most-used DevOps tools - processing more than 3 million jobs a day - CircleCI has unique access to data on how the most effective engineering teams work, and the tools to help software companies successfully leverage the power of AI into their commercial applications. Companies like Hinge, HuggingFace, and Samsung use us to improve engineering team productivity, release better products, and get to market faster. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in downtown San Francisco with a global, remote workforce, CircleCI is venture-backed by Base10, Greenspring Associates, Eleven Prime, IVP, Sapphire Ventures, Top Tier Capital Partners, Baseline Ventures, Threshold Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, Owl Rock Capital, Next Equity Partners, Heavybit, and Harrison Metal Capital. CircleCI is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. How CircleCI Uses AI in Hiring At CircleCI, people make our hiring decisions. We use technology to support our recruiting team so they can spend more time on what matters most: getting to know you. Where we may use AI - Job descriptions and messaging: AI may help draft job descriptions and role-specific messaging so they are clear and accurate. - Application review: For some roles, we use an AI tool to review applications, including resumes and application responses, against criteria our hiring team sets for the role. The tool generates a fit score and summary to help recruiters organize and prioritize applications. - Interview notes: With advance notice, an AI note-taking tool may join interviews to record, transcribe, and summarize the conversation. This lets interviewers focus on talking with you. You will be told before each interview, and you may opt out at any stage by letting your recruiter know. If you opt out, the tool will not join, and your candidacy is not affected. - Outreach: AI may help draft candidate outreach and scheduling messages, which our team reviews before sending. Our commitment AI does not make hiring decisions at CircleCI. Our recruiters and hiring teams review candidates and make every decision to advance or reject an application. No candidate is rejected based solely on an AI score. We have tools and processes in place to test for bias and to review how these tools perform, and we adjust our approach as AI technology and the laws that govern it change. ## Your choices You can ask for human-only review of your application, opt out of AI interview note-taking, request an accommodation, or ask questions about how we use AI. Contact recruiting@circleci.com.  For how we handle your data, including retention, see our Privacy Policy. ## About CircleCI ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: CircleCI provides a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform that enables software teams to automate their build, test, and deployment processes with AI-powered intelligence. - **Entity Type**: Private - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA (with a globally distributed workforce across the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, Germany, Mexico, and Japan) - **Founded**: 2011 - **Founders**: Paul Biggar and Allen Rohner ## Core Business - Primary industry: DevOps and CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery) Platform - Target customers: B2B, serving engineering teams from startups to the Fortune 500, including software engineers, platform engineers, security engineers, and engineering managers - Mission: To manage change so software teams can innovate faster — enabling engineers to deliver high-quality products reliably and efficiently ## Products & Services - **CircleCI CI/CD Platform**: A cloud-based and on-premise continuous integration and delivery service that automates the building, testing, and deployment of software. The core offering includes intelligent test splitting, parallel execution, and support for Linux, macOS, Android, and Windows environments. - **AI-Powered Agentic CI/CD**: A new generation of the platform featuring autonomous validation, AI agents that diagnose and fix pipeline failures, rollback pipelines for safe recovery, and model evaluation for LLM applications. This includes the CircleCI MCP Server to connect AI tools (like Claude Code) to pipeline data. - **Platform Toolkit**: A set of tools and policies (including no-think CI/CD, golden paths, and policy enforcement) designed to help platform engineers standardize best practices at scale across their organizations. - **Orbs**: Reusable, shareable packages of configuration (YAML) that simplify and streamline CI/CD setup for common deployment targets (AWS, GCP, Azure, Heroku, etc.) and tools. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed - **Key Metric**: Over 2 million developers use the platform. The platform has achieved 97% faster test runs. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Investors include Top Tier Capital Partners, IVP, Sapphire Ventures, and Scale Venture Partners (from the $100M Series F raised in 2021). Key technology partners include AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and major VCS providers like GitHub and GitLab. - **Growth Signals**: Forbes named CircleCI to "America’s Best Startup Employers" list. The company is actively investing in AI-native features (autonomous agents, MCP integration) and has launched a new CLI and a redesigned Pipelines page. Headcount continues to grow with active hiring across engineering, product, and go-to-market roles. ## Competitive Advantages - **Agent-Powered Automation**: A first-to-market move into "autonomous validation" and AI-agent-driven CI/CD, distinguishing CircleCI from traditional, purely script-based CI/CD tools. - **Enterprise-Grade Scale & Trust**: Built to handle the demands of large, complex organizations with rigorous security, compliance, and policy enforcement needs — a critical moat against simpler, less mature alternatives. - **Multi-Platform & Hybrid Cloud Support**: Supports the widest range of environments (Linux, macOS, Android, Windows) in both cloud and self-hosted (on-prem) configurations, giving enterprises flexibility. - **Developer Experience Focus**: Features like Smarter Testing, Chunk testing, and the new Pipelines page emphasize a frictionless, high-velocity developer experience, which drives adoption within engineering teams. ## Strategic Focus - **AI-Native CI/CD**: The company's roadmap is heavily centered on "AI speed." The focus is on integrating AI agents directly into the pipeline (for diagnosis, rollback, and even prompt engineering), making the platform autonomous and "no-think" for developers. - **Platform Engineering & Standardization**: Empowering platform teams to define golden paths and enforce policies, balancing developer velocity with organizational control and safety. - **Expanding the Ecosystem**: Deepening integrations with major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) and AI tooling (MCP Server, LLM app support) to become the default CI/CD layer for the AI era. ## Why Work Here - **Culture & Flexibility**: CircleCI operates on a hybrid model (office-from-home flexibility) designed to balance collaboration with personal productivity. The culture is built on guiding principles: "Learn fast," "Own the outcome," "Understand the problem," "Do our best work," and "Think like the customer." - **Professional Development**: Employees have access to comprehensive training programs, leadership development opportunities, and a clear focus on career pathing (e.g., redesigned engineering career paths). - **Community & Inclusion**: Active Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) include Circle[SHE]i (women and allies), The Onyx Circle (Black employees and allies), CircleAPI (Asian voices), Circle-Sí-I (Latino/LatinX), CircleMinds (neurodiversity), Queer Sphere (LGBTQIA+), and CircleGI (Veterans). - **Benefits & Perks**: Comprehensive benefits package including generous PTO, holistic mental health support, and global health and wellness coverage. ## Sources 1. [circleci.com](https://circleci.com/) — Official website with product overview, brand positioning, and "Join 2mil+ devs" tagline 2. [circleci.com/careers](https://circleci.com/careers/) — Careers page with mission, culture, guiding principles, ERG descriptions, and benefits information 3. [circleci.com/about](https://circleci.com/about/) — About page with leadership team (CEO Jim Rose, CTO Rob Zuber, CFO Chitra Balasubramanian, etc.), company history (founded 2011 in San Francisco), and values 4. [linkedin.com/company/circleci](https://www.linkedin.com/company/circleci) — LinkedIn company page with open positions (10 current job listings including Software Engineer, PM, Product Designer) 5. [circleci.com/docs](https://circleci.com/docs/guides/about-circleci/about-circleci/) — Official documentation providing technical overview, CI/CD definitions, supported platforms (Linux, macOS, Android, Windows), and deployment targets (AWS S3, EC2, GCP, Azure, Heroku, Firebase) ## Other roles at CircleCI - [Staff Software Engineer, On-Prem](https://feeny.ai/job/staff-software-engineer-on-prem-circleci-canada-or-united-states-or-mexico-city-9qstax84p5w7) — Canada OR United States OR Mexico City, Mexico - [Senior Software Engineer, Query](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-software-engineer-query-circleci-canada-united-states-united-kingdom-z1ctvdazczwv) — Canada United States United Kingdom Mexico City, Mexico - [Agentic Operator, Growth Marketing](https://feeny.ai/job/agentic-operator-growth-marketing-circleci-united-states-g70g1bkhgww8) — United States - [Staff Software Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/staff-software-engineer-circleci-canada-united-states-united-kingdom-mexico-city-eemg47j3d784) — Canada United States United Kingdom Mexico City, Mexico - [Lead Accountant](https://feeny.ai/job/lead-accountant-circleci-san-francisco-pt3eg8pgnzrd) — San Francisco, CA - [Senior GTM Strategy & Operations Manager](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-gtm-strategy-operations-manager-circleci-san-francisco-snrj9qf533hs) — San Francisco, CA - [Strategic Sales Manager](https://feeny.ai/job/strategic-sales-manager-circleci-san-francisco-9kp9v1bxv0sb) — San Francisco, CA - [Lead Product Designer](https://feeny.ai/job/lead-product-designer-circleci-san-francisco-4kt44f71jhe4) — San Francisco, CA - [Senior Software Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-software-engineer-circleci-canada-united-states-united-kingdom-mexico-c7sxvxgjq1sd) — Canada United States United Kingdom Mexico City, Mexico - [Software Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/software-engineer-circleci-canada-5n8cjndvxfn2) — Canada, United States