Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Release Engineering

What excites you

• Lead the expansion of reliability standards across product engineering, converting foundational infrastructure into lasting operational habits and tooling.
• Architect and manage the SLO and error-budget framework, empowering teams to utilize reliability data for strategic product and release choices.
• Promote widespread use of progressive delivery and automated safety gates, ensuring high velocity without compromising production stability.
• Guide emerging product teams toward production readiness through expertise in observability, incident response, and scalable deployment health.
• Collaborate with SRE, Platform, and Infrastructure teams to transform complex production requirements into intuitive, self-service platform features.
• Direct the response to critical incidents and ensure the resulting post-mortem actions yield permanent improvements to the platform.
• Prepare for an AI-driven development landscape by scaling our safety nets to handle an increased volume and frequency of code changes.

What excites us

• Over 8 years of professional experience in backend systems, SRE, or platform engineering roles.
• Proven track record of designing reliability programs—such as service maturity models or SLI frameworks—that achieved cross-team adoption.
• Direct experience building or operating canary rollout systems, metric-gated analysis, or automated rollback infrastructure.
• Technical proficiency in software development, with a preference for Go or similar systems languages.
• Ability to drive organizational change and influence engineering culture without formal authority.
• Sound technical judgment in high-stakes production scenarios, balancing user impact with developer velocity.
• Prior exposure to Kubernetes, service mesh technologies, Prometheus, or ArgoCD is considered a strong asset.

Compensation and Benefits

• Additional compensation in the form(s) of equity and/or commission are dependent on the position offered.
• Plaid provides a comprehensive benefit plan, including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k).