Platform Engineer

About CircleCI Engineering

At CircleCI, our engineering teams are the driving force behind the platform trusted by developers worldwide to build, test, and deploy their code with confidence. We operate at a massive scale, processing over 50 million builds per month for organizations ranging from innovative startups to industry-leading enterprises. Our platform sits at a critical intersection in the software development lifecycle, where reliability, performance, and user experience directly impact the productivity of development teams around the globe.

As we continue to innovate, we're increasingly leveraging AI to transform the software delivery experience. From intelligent test selection that reduces build times, to predictive analytics that prevent pipeline failures, to AI-powered developer tools that streamline workflows, we're using machine learning and artificial intelligence to solve complex engineering challenges. We believe AI represents the next frontier in CI/CD, enabling smarter, more efficient, and more reliable software delivery pipelines.

Your work at CircleCI directly impacts how software is delivered across the industry. When you contribute to our systems—whether they're customer-facing interfaces, core platform capabilities, or developer tools—you're helping teams worldwide ship better code faster and with greater confidence. The systems you'll help build enable innovation across the entire software industry, making you an essential part of the modern development ecosystem.

About the CDMX team

Our brand-new Mexico City team is working closely with our U.S. engineering counterparts to build powerful, API-driven interfaces that enable cutting-edge AI-native initiatives. This team is all about building from the ground up (0→1 product development), driving innovation with autonomy, and cultivating a culture of self-sufficiency and technical excellence as we shape the future of continuous integration and delivery. 

*This role requires a hybrid schedule with 3 in-office days per week*

We’re Particularly Interested In People Who:

• Consider themselves Product Developers - those who crave solving complex customer problems, not just generating code.
• Super curious about how things work, new technologies and new ways of doing things.
• Are eager to learn and grow in a collaborative, distributed team environment.
• Favor regular, incremental delivery over perfection.
• Strive for continuous learning and improvement for themselves and their teams.
• Leverage AI tools

What You’ll Do:

• Become one of the founding engineers in CircleCI Mexico!
• Develop and maintain certified CircleCI Orbs (https://circleci.com/es/orbs/) to provide standardized, reusable configuration packages to simplify builds and reduce inconsistencies across our customers development teams' CI/CD pipelines.
• Develop and maintain pre-configured execution environments by building Docker convenience images with essential development tools (Node.js, Python, Go, etc.) and full-scale machine images (Linux, Windows, macOS, Android) using Packer and Ansible to eliminate customer environment setup overhead.
• You will own our Developer Hub (https://circleci.com/developer/), keeping it secure and continuously optimizing the experience for our customers.
• Collaborate with engineering teams and community to gather requirements for new tools, language versions, and OS configurations while maintaining open-source repositories under CircleCI-Public organization (that includes CircleCI CLI, cool huh?), and respond to customer feedback through GitHub issues and community channels.
• Keep our Terraform provider up to date with API changes/additions, as well as reviewing and addressing community's requests.
• Grow your technical depth and system design skills in a fast-paced, supportive environment where iteration is key.
• Contribute to systems that directly impact developer productivity for thousands of teams around the world.
• Receive mentorship from senior engineers while taking on increasingly complex tasks that will help you grow toward senior-level responsibilities.

What You’ll Bring:

• 3+ years of professional DevOps, Java or Golang and microservices experience. And willingness to become a Golang expert with us 💪.
• Proven experience building and maintaining distributed systems in real-world production environments.
• Superb bash and PowerShell scripting skills.
• Container registry management and distribution.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and modern cloud infrastructure (AWS and GCP).
• A strong sense of ownership and curiosity—comfortable diving into complex systems and learning through iteration.
• A desire to write high-quality, maintainable code and contribute to a collaborative engineering culture.

Bonus Skills (Nice to Have)

• Interest in or exposure to AI/ML technologies and their applications in developer tools.
• Experience with test automation and CI/CD optimization.
• Experience working with Windows patching and Group Policies