The ad says“Technical proficiency in software development, with a preference for Go or similar systems languages”
Values
The ad says“Prior exposure to Kubernetes, service mesh technologies, Prometheus, or ArgoCD is considered a strong asset”
The ad says“Direct experience building or operating canary rollout systems, metric-gated analysis, or automated rollback infrastructure”
The ad says“Direct experience building or operating canary rollout systems, metric-gated analysis, or automated rollback infrastructure”
The ad says“Technical proficiency in software development, with a preference for Go or similar systems languages”
The ad says“Prior exposure to Kubernetes, service mesh technologies, Prometheus, or ArgoCD is considered a strong asset”
The ad says“Direct experience building or operating canary rollout systems, metric-gated analysis, or automated rollback infrastructure”
The ad says“Prior exposure to Kubernetes, service mesh technologies, Prometheus, or ArgoCD is considered a strong asset”
The ad says“Prior exposure to Kubernetes, service mesh technologies, Prometheus, or ArgoCD is considered a strong asset”
Plaid’s Infrastructure team builds the platforms and tooling that help engineering teams develop, deploy, and operate production systems safely. Release Engineering owns the path from merge to production, including Plaid’s zero-touch deployment system, progressive rollouts, metric-gated analysis, and automatic rollback. Our goal is to make safe shipping the default for every product team
As a Staff Site Reliability Engineer on Release Engineering, you’ll define and scale Plaid’s reliability practices across product engineering
You’ll architect our SLO and error-budget programs, drive the adoption of progressive delivery, and ensure new products are production-ready. By partnering across product and platform teams, you’ll translate complex production needs into intuitive, self-service tooling
This is a hands-on technical leadership role where you’ll shape the future of our deployment systems—ensuring they remain fast and safe even as AI-assisted development increases code velocity
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
Benefits
Vibrant offices in SF, NYC, and Raleigh-Durham—with catered meals, happy hours, and clubs to keep you connected
Competitive pay, comprehensive health benefits, and support for fertility, mental health, and parental leave
Lifestyle perks including home office stipends, daycare support, and commuting benefits like CitiBike and Lyft
Preferred experience
Ability to drive organizational change and influence engineering culture without formal authority
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
Sound technical judgment in high-stakes production scenarios, balancing user impact with developer velocity
Proven track record of designing reliability programs—such as service maturity models or SLI frameworks—that achieved cross-team adoption
Prior exposure to Kubernetes, service mesh technologies, Prometheus, or ArgoCD is considered a strong asset
Over 8 years of professional experience in backend systems, SRE, or platform engineering roles
We encourage you to apply to a role even if your experience doesn’t fully match the job description. We are always looking for team members that will bring something unique to Plaid!
