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 ensuring new products are production-ready. You will architect SLO and error-budget programs, drive the adoption of progressive delivery, and translate complex production needs into intuitive, self-service tooling. Your daily work involves managing canary rollout systems, metric-gated analysis, and automated rollback infrastructure to ensure safe shipping as code velocity increases. The role requires technical proficiency in software development using Go or similar systems languages. You will also leverage tools such as Kubernetes, service mesh technologies, Prometheus, and ArgoCD. This role focuses on the path from merge to production, solving the challenge of maintaining high deployment speed while ensuring stability within a complex infrastructure environment that supports automated safety gates and incident response.
What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn in California?
Median $214000 from 54 postings across 15 companies.