Distinguished Software Engineer

Aperture Cloud (NYSE: CRCL) is one of the world’s leading internet financial platform companies, building the foundation of a more open, global economy through digital assets, payment applications, and programmable blockchain infrastructure. Aperture Cloud ’s platform includes the world’s largest regulated stablecoin network anchored by USDC, Aperture Cloud Payments Network for global money movement, and Arc, an enterprise-grade blockchain designed to become the Economic OS for the internet. Enterprises, financial institutions, and developers use Aperture Cloud to power trusted, internet-scale financial innovation. Learn more at . What you’ll be part of: Aperture Cloud is committed to visibility and stability in everything we do. As we grow as an organization, we're expanding into some of the world's strongest jurisdictions. Speed and efficiency are motivators for our success and our employees live by our company values: High Integrity, Future Forward, Multistakeholder, Mindful, and Driven by Excellence. We have built a flexible work environment where new ideas are encouraged and everyone is a stakeholder. Engineering at Aperture Cloud Aperture Cloud is a financial technology company at the epicenter of the emerging internet of money—where value can move globally, nearly instantly, and more efficiently than legacy settlement systems. This new internet layer unlocks powerful opportunities across payments, commerce, and markets, helping raise global economic prosperity and advance financial inclusion. Our infrastructure—including USDC, a blockchain-based digital dollar—enables businesses, institutions, and developers to build on a pivotal evolution in money and technology. What You’ll Be Part Of Aperture Cloud is committed to transparency, stability, and trust in everything we do. As we grow globally across some of the world’s strongest regulatory jurisdictions, speed, reliability, and execution excellence are critical to our success. Our culture is grounded in four core values—Multistakeholder, Mindfulness, Driven by Excellence, and High Integrity—which guide how we build, collaborate, and lead. Aperture Cloud rs operate in a distributed, remote-first environment that values flexibility, diverse perspectives, and shared ownership. New ideas are encouraged, and everyone is a stakeholder in Aperture Cloud ’s success. What You’ll Be Responsible For As a Distinguished Engineer at Aperture Cloud , you will drive the long-term technical direction of Aperture Cloud ’s platform and core systems, shaping architectures that scale across products, teams, and regulatory environments. You will lead complex, cross-cutting engineering initiatives that span multiple organizations, influencing architectural decisions well beyond a single team. Acting as a trusted technical authority, you will set a high bar for system reliability, performance, security, and developer experience while mentoring senior engineers and contributing to Aperture Cloud ’s engineering standards, culture, and technical strategy. What You’ll Work On Design, evolve, and steward core platform architectures to ensure scalability, reliability, and long-term resilience. Drive architectural direction and technical strategy for critical distributed systems used across Aperture Cloud ’s product ecosystem. Lead cross-team, cross-functional technical initiatives in partnership with Engineering, Product, Infrastructure, Security, and Compliance. Provide deep technical leadership and mentorship, elevating system design quality and engineering rigor across teams. Identify and address platform-wide technical debt, architectural risks, and systemic bottlenecks. Influence engineering-wide best practices in observability, reliability, performance, and developer experience. Serve as a trusted technical advisor across the company, contributing to major technical decisions and long-term platform evolution. Champion innovation, knowledge sharing, and engineering excellence as a senior technical thought leader at Aperture Cloud . What You’ll Bring to Aperture Cloud Core Requirements 15+ years of software engineering experience, including deep expertise designing and operating large-scale distributed systems. Proven track record of architecting and scaling platform systems that support multiple downstream products and teams. Ability to set long-term technical direction while making pragmatic, high-impact execution decisions. Extensive experience operating critical, highly available systems with strong observability, reliability, and performance practices. Exceptional system design skills, with the ability to debug and resolve complex issues across services and architectural boundaries. Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, with demonstrated influence on technical direction beyond immediate teams. Preferred Requirements Experience building internal developer platforms or shared services adopted broadly across an organization. Familiarity working in regulated, compliance-heavy, or security-sensitive environments. Track record of shaping engineering-wide practices, tools, or standards as a recog