Staff Site Reliability Engineer - Release Engineering
Plaid is a financial data network and fintech infrastructure company that helps people securely connect financial accounts to digital financial services.
Maintainer signals as of 9/2/2026
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About Plaid Inc.
Plaid provides developer infrastructure and financial tools for account connectivity, financial data access, bank payments, identity verification, AML monitoring, credit and underwriting, and fraud prevention. Its network supports thousands of fintech companies and more than 12,000 financial institutions across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Europe.
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About the Role
Define and scale reliability practices across product engineering by architecting SLO and error-budget programs, promoting progressive delivery and automated safety gates, guiding teams toward production readiness, building self-service deployment features, leading critical incident response, and improving release safety for high-velocity development.
Requirements
- Over 8 years of professional experience in backend systems, SRE, or platform engineering
- Experience designing reliability programs such as service maturity models or SLI frameworks
- Experience building or operating canary rollout systems, metric-gated analysis, or automated rollback infrastructure
- Technical proficiency in software development, preferably with Go or similar systems languages
- Ability to drive organizational change without formal authority
- Technical judgment in high-stakes production scenarios
- Exposure to Kubernetes, service mesh technologies, Prometheus, or ArgoCD
Responsibilities
- Lead the expansion of reliability standards across product engineering
- Architect and manage SLO and error-budget frameworks
- Promote progressive delivery and automated safety gates
- Guide product teams toward production readiness
- Collaborate with Platform and Infrastructure teams on self-service platform features
- Direct critical incident response and post-mortem improvements
- Scale safety systems for increased code-change volume
Benefits
- Equity
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- 401(k)