Staff Site Reliability Engineer - Release Engineering

The role

You will define and scale reliability practices across product engineering. You will architect SLO and error-budget programs and drive the adoption of progressive delivery.

What you will do

• Lead the expansion of reliability standards across product engineering.
• Architect and manage the SLO and error-budget framework.
• Promote widespread use of progressive delivery and automated safety gates.
• Guide emerging product teams toward production readiness.
• Collaborate with Platform and Infrastructure teams to transform production requirements into self-service platform features.
• Direct the response to critical incidents and ensure post-mortem actions yield permanent improvements.

Required qualifications

• Over 8 years of professional experience in backend systems, SRE, or platform engineering roles.
• Proven track record of designing reliability programs that achieved cross-team adoption.
• Direct experience building or operating canary rollout systems, metric-gated analysis, or automated rollback infrastructure.
• Technical proficiency in software development.
• Ability to drive organizational change and influence engineering culture without formal authority.
• Sound technical judgment in high-stakes production scenarios.

Nice to have

• Preference for Go or similar systems languages
• Prior exposure to Kubernetes, service mesh technologies, Prometheus, or ArgoCD is considered a strong asset

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• 401(k)

About the company

Plaid builds tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create products. The company's network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe.