Staff SRE: Release Engineering & Reliability

Plaid

San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 207,600 - 273,600

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Plaid is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer on Release Engineering to scale reliability across product engineering. You will architect the SLO and error-budget programs, drive progressive delivery, and ensure new products are production-ready.

By partnering with Platform and Infrastructure teams, you will translate complex production needs into intuitive, self-service tooling, lead incident responses, and shape deployment health for faster, safer software delivery.

Qualifications

Over 8 years of professional experience in backend systems, SRE, or platform engineering.
Proven track record designing reliability programs with cross-team adoption.
Experience building or operating canary rollout systems, metric-gated analysis, or automated rollback infrastructure.
Strong Go or similar systems language proficiency.

Responsibilities

Lead the expansion of reliability standards across product engineering and tooling.
Architect and manage the SLO and error-budget framework for strategic product choices.
Promote progressive delivery and automated safety gates to maintain velocity with stability.
Guide product teams toward production readiness with observability and incident response expertise.
Collaborate with Platform and Infrastructure teams to translate complex requirements into self-service tooling.
Direct responses to critical incidents and ensure post-mortem actions improve the platform.
Prepare for an AI-driven development landscape by scaling safety nets for more frequent code changes.