Description:
• Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest
• Join us to accelerate and ensure the resilience of Affirm’s ecosystem of honest financial products! We are looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer to build and evangelize Reliability practices throughout Affirm’s Infrastructure team and beyond.
• Reliability Engineering at Affirm is a small yet crucial team, building out the SRE Central Model that creates reliability best practices, tooling, frameworks, and then drives their adoption across Affirm.
• Our Vision is to enable all teams to “operate what they own” with excellence, while providing white-glove support for critical services that deliver our most impactful products to Affirm’s customers.
Requirements:
• 10+ years of software development experience, including at least one of the following: Python, Kotlin, Rust, Java, C++, GoLang
•… Expertise in synthesizing complex technical requirements, designs, trade-offs, and capabilities into clear decisions, and influence product direction
• Ability to communicate decisions and practices to the engineering organization effectively
• At least 5+ years of experience in at least two different SRE organizational structures
• At least 5+ years of experience of hands-on work in infrastructure and scaling distributed systems
• At least 5+ years of technical leadership on SWE and Reliability teams focussed on infrastructure, reliability, and software engineering at scale
• Strong hands-on experience with k8s and AWS in a production environment
• Experience in encouraging a strong engineering culture and improving reliability in a growing company, including the ability to work closely with other senior and staff engineers to drive change
• Track record of successfully mentoring and developing technical leaders
• Deep knowledge of incident management, post-incident review, and incident analysis
• Expertise in developing and implementing effective Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs)
• This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
Benefits:
• Health care coverage – Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents
• Flexible Spending Wallets – generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses
• Time off – competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge
• ESPP – An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount
