CircleCI
CI/CD platform that automates build, test, and deploy pipelines for software teams. Founded 2011, HQ San Francisco, remote-first. ~358 staff. ~$315M raised at a $1.7B valuation.
What is CircleCI?
CircleCI is a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform, one of the largest and most established in the developer-tools space. Software teams connect their code repositories to CircleCI, and every change automatically triggers pipelines that build the software, run automated tests, and deploy it, so teams can ship faster and catch problems earlier with less manual work. It supports many languages, frameworks, and cloud targets, and is used by everyone from small startups to large engineering organizations. CircleCI competes with tools like GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, and Buildkite. It was founded in 2011 by Paul Biggar and Allen Rohner, and is headquartered in San Francisco while running a global, remote-first workforce. Jim Rose, who joined in 2014 as COO, leads the company as CEO. CircleCI employs roughly 358 people and has raised about $315.5 million in total funding; a $100 million round in 2021, led by Greenspring Associates with participation from IVP, Sapphire Ventures, and others, valued the company at $1.7 billion. Because CI/CD sits at the core of how modern software teams work, CircleCI's product is deeply technical and its customers are engineers, which shapes the kind of people it hires.
Mission & values
Give software teams the confidence to ship by automating build, test, and delivery, so developers can move faster with less friction.
Qualifications
CircleCI hires the roles a technical, developer-focused SaaS company needs, and it hires them remotely. On the engineering side: software engineers (backend, frontend, full-stack, distributed systems, and the large-scale infrastructure and platform work that running CI/CD for many customers demands), site reliability and security engineering, and data. On the product side: product management, product design, and developer-facing roles like developer relations/advocacy, technical writing, and solutions/support engineering. On the commercial side it hires sales, sales engineering, customer success, and partnerships, plus marketing (with a strong developer-marketing angle), finance, legal, and people functions. Application flow lives at circleci.com/careers. The draw for this board is that CircleCI is remote-first with a global workforce, so roles are genuinely remote, though each posting states the eligible countries or regions and any work-authorization requirements (it hires in the specific markets where it is set up to employ people). Deep systems, infrastructure, or developer-experience expertise, and comfort with the tools engineers use daily, are strong signals for technical roles. Check each posting for eligible locations.
Leadership
Jim Rose
Chief Executive Officer
CEO of CircleCI. He joined the company in 2014 as COO and went on to lead it as CEO, scaling it into one of the largest CI/CD platforms with a global, remote-first team.
Hiring process
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Apply at circleci.com careers
Browse remote engineering, infrastructure, security, product, design, developer relations, and go-to-market roles and submit through the CircleCI careers site. Each posting lists eligible locations.
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Recruiter screen
Confirms role fit, level, eligible location and work authorization, remote setup, and pay.
About 7 days
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Technical or role-specific interview
Engineering: coding and system design, often with distributed-systems or infrastructure depth. Product/design: portfolio and case. Go-to-market: a scenario relevant to a developer-led product.
About 10 days
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Team interviews
Cross-functional interviews with the team on depth, remote collaboration, and fit for a developer-first, remote-first culture.
About 10 days
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Offer
Offer with base plus equity (and OTE for sales roles), aligned to role and location.
About 7 days
Funding
Awards & recognition
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Reached a $1.7B valuation on ~$315.5M raised · 2021
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One of the largest CI/CD platforms, built with a remote-first team · 2026
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Company information
- Industry: Developer Tools / CI-CD / DevOps
- Location: Remote-first (HQ San Francisco, CA; global remote workforce)
- Founded: 2011
- Employees: 358
- Website: circleci.com ↗
- LinkedIn: Company page ↗