Plaid
Staff Site Reliability Engineer - Release Engineering
New York City Office · Staff+
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 33 days ago
KubernetesPrometheusSite Reliability EngineeringPlatform EngineeringIncident ResponseLeadershipArgo CD
About the role
- We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years.
- We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- Collaborate with Platform, and Infrastructure teams to transform complex production requirements into intuitive, self-service platform features.
- Direct experience building or operating canary rollout systems, metric-gated analysis, or automated rollback infrastructure.
- Ability to drive organizational change and influence engineering culture without formal authority.
Requirements
- Technical proficiency in software development, with a preference for Go or similar systems languages.
Skills
- Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life.
Compensation
- Additional compensation in the form(s) of equity and/or commission are dependent on the position offered.
Benefits
- Guide emerging product teams toward production readiness through expertise in observability, incident response, and scalable deployment health.
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