This role pays more than
89%
of similar roles. Most pay
$163,041–$215,375
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$241k
versus about
$189k
for comparable roles.
Based on 238 similar postings.
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About Plaid
Plaid is a financial technology company that builds a data network powering digital finance applications, enabling consumers to securely connect their financial accounts to apps and services. Industry: Financial Technology & Data Infrastructure
Plaid currently has
35 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$190,800–$262,800
across 35 roles with salary data.
As a Staff Site Reliability Engineer - Release Engineering on the Infrastructure team, you will define and scale reliability practices across product engineering while managing the path from merge to production. You will architect SLO and error-budget programs, drive the adoption of progressive delivery, and ensure new products are production-ready through automated safety gates and metric-gated analysis. This hands-on technical leadership role involves building self-service tooling for deployment systems and managing incident responses to improve platform stability. The role requires expertise in backend systems, SRE, or platform engineering, with a preference for Go or similar systems languages. Candidates should possess experience with canary rollout systems and automated rollback infrastructure. Familiarity with Kubernetes, service mesh technologies, Prometheus, and ArgoCD is highly valued as you prepare deployment safety nets for an AI-driven development landscape.
What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn?
Median $186200 from 131 postings across 36 companies.
SRE
Go
Kubernetes
Prometheus
ArgoCD
Service Mesh
SLO
SLI
canary rollout s
Automated Rollback
Observability
Incident Response
Post-mortem
Backend Systems