Plaid
Staff Site Reliability Engineer - Release Engineering
$208K–$274K
San Francisco HQ +1 · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 20, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco HQ
Seattle Office - Experience
- Over 8 years.
About the job
Leads the design and adoption of reliability practices and release systems that help Plaid’s product teams deploy software safely and at high velocity.
What you'll do
- Expand reliability standards, SLOs, and error-budget practices across product engineering.
- Drive progressive delivery, automated safety gates, and production readiness through self-service tooling.
- Lead critical incident response and ensure post-mortems produce lasting platform improvements.
What they ask for
- Over 8 years of professional experience in backend systems, SRE, or platform engineering.
- Track record designing reliability programs that achieved cross-team adoption.
- Direct experience building or operating canary rollouts, metric-gated analysis, or automated rollback infrastructure.
- Software development proficiency and ability to influence organizational change without formal authority.
Nice to have
- Go or similar systems languages.
- Exposure to Kubernetes, service mesh technologies, Prometheus, or ArgoCD.
Pay
$207.6K – $273.6K USD base salary
Tools
Go, Kubernetes, Prometheus, ArgoCD
AI focus
Scale deployment safety nets to handle the increased volume and frequency of code changes associated with AI-assisted development.
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