Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Release Engineering

Plaid

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Work type: On-site
Location: New York City, NY
Salary: $207,600–$273,600 / yr
Posted: 1 day ago
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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Above market

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This role $241k

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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 98 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $190,800–$262,800 across 98 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Release Engineering

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As a Staff Site Reliability Engineer on Plaid's Release Engineering team, you will define and scale reliability practices across product engineering by architecting SLO frameworks and managing error-budget programs. You’ll drive the adoption of progressive delivery systems and ensure new products are production-ready through intuitive tooling development. This hands-on technical leadership role involves collaborating with various teams to transform complex requirements into user-friendly platform features, guiding incident responses, and preparing for an AI-driven development landscape. The ideal candidate has over eight years of experience in backend systems or SRE roles, proficiency in Go or similar languages, and expertise in Kubernetes, service mesh technologies, Prometheus, and ArgoCD.

Skills

Go Kubernetes Prometheus ArgoCD CI/CD SLO Error-budget Progressive_delivery Observability Service_mesh PostgreSQL GitOps

What you'll do

Define and scale reliability practices across product engineering teams.
Architect SLO and error-budget frameworks for strategic decision-making.
Promote progressive delivery to ensure high velocity with production stability.
Guide new product teams toward production readiness through expertise in observability.
Transform complex production requirements into intuitive, self-service platform features.
Direct incident response and implement permanent improvements from post-mortem actions.

What we're looking for

Over 8 years of professional experience in backend systems, SRE, or platform engineering.
Proven track record of designing reliability programs that achieved cross-team adoption.
Direct experience with canary rollout systems and automated rollback infrastructure.
Technical proficiency in software development, preferably in Go or similar languages.
Ability to drive organizational change and influence engineering culture informally.
Sound technical judgment in high-stakes production scenarios, balancing user impact and developer velocity.
Prior exposure to Kubernetes, service mesh technologies, Prometheus, or ArgoCD.

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