Staff Site Reliability Engineer - Release Engineering

What this role involves

This role is for a Staff Site Reliability Engineer in Release Engineering at Plaid. The position involves architecting SLO and error-budget programs, driving progressive delivery, and improving deployment reliability across product engineering. The ideal candidate has over 8 years of experience in backend systems or SRE, with expertise in canary rollouts and metric-gated analysis.

Skills this posting asks for

• reliability programs
• service maturity models
• sli frameworks
• canary rollout
• metric-gated analysis
• automated rollback
• go
• kubernetes
• service mesh
• prometheus
• argocd
• observability
• incident response
• progressive delivery
• platform engineering
• backend systems
• sre
• deployment systems
• automated safety gates
• post-mortem actions
• ai-assisted development
• codes changes
• scalable deployment health
• zero-touch deployment

Requirements

• 8 years of experience
• Level: staff

From the employer’s posting

We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of peopl…