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Staff Site Reliability Engineer - Release Engineering

Plaid · San Francisco Bay Area · 1 wk ago
HybridEngineering$208k–$274k/yrFull-time

What Excites You

Lead the expansion of reliability standards across product engineering, converting foundational infrastructure into lasting operational habits and tooling.

Architect and manage the SLO and error-budget framework, empowering teams to utilize reliability data for strategic product and release choices.

Promote widespread use of progressive delivery and automated safety gates, ensuring high velocity without compromising production stability.

Guide emerging product teams toward production readiness through expertise in observability, incident response, and scalable deployment health.

Collaborate with Platform, and Infrastructure teams to transform complex production requirements into intuitive, self-service platform features.

Direct the response to critical incidents and ensure the resulting post-mortem actions yield permanent improvements to the platform.

Prepare for an AI-driven development landscape by scaling our safety nets to handle an increased volume and frequency of code changes.

What Excites Us

  • Over 8 years of professional experience in backend systems, SRE, or platform engineering roles.
  • Proven track record of designing reliability programs—such as service maturity models or SLI frameworks—that achieved cross-team adoption.
  • Direct experience building or operating canary rollout systems, metric-gated analysis, or automated rollback infrastructure.
  • Tech proficiency in software development, with a preference for Go or similar systems languages.
  • Sound technical judgment in high-stakes production scenarios, balancing user impact with developer velocity.
  • Prior exposure to Kubernetes, service mesh technologies, Prometheus, or ArgoCD is considered a strong asset.

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