Remote Senior Manager, Software Engineering

Summary

Join Affirm's Data and Storage Services team as an experienced Engineering Leader to lead the Orchestration Services team. You will manage and mentor engineering teams, oversee storage services infrastructure, drive business and engineering metrics, and collaborate with various stakeholders. The role requires expertise in large-scale data processing systems, scaling frameworks, and stakeholder management. You will develop multi-year roadmaps and contribute to Affirm's strategy for managing orchestration workloads. Affirm offers a competitive compensation package including a generous base pay, equity rewards, stipends, and comprehensive benefits.

Requirements

• Solid leadership and interpersonal skills
• 10+ years of experience in managing multiple diverse and inclusive teams and delivering large cross-functional technical programs
• Proven track record in stakeholder management, ownership, and successful delivery
• Expertise in managing large-scale, geographically distributed compute and data processing systems, including data lake solutions and Workflow Orchestration frameworks
• Expertise in scaling frameworks like Spark, Flink and, Kafka on Kubernetes and cloud providers like AWS
• Capable of mentorship, cross-functional project execution, and individual contribution
• Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills with a growth mindset
• Experience in the data infrastructure domain and a passion for leading technical teams and contributing to Open Source solutions
• This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of engineers and managers with empathy while fostering a high-performance, ownership-driven & inclusive culture to develop frameworks, systems, and tools for new Affirm products
• Oversee teams managing storage services including relational, key-value, and analytics storage infrastructure and tools at scale
• Understand and drive business and engineering metrics, promoting a culture of reliability, security, and productivity
• Collaborate with tech leads, program managers, and product managers on security, tools, architecture, planning, and delivery of multiple concurrent projects
• Work across the engineering organization and with internal and external partners
• Provide leadership and growth opportunities to team members, mentor engineers, recruit, and represent Affirm hiring brands
• Lead technical decisions, projects, and roadmaps within the Batch and Streaming teams, shaping Affirm’s strategy for managing and serving orchestration workloads
• Collaborate with peers, leadership, and stakeholders across platform engineering and product engineering organizations
• Develop a multi year roadmap to design and implement frameworks, services, and tools for new Affirm products and business needs
• Guide, tutor, and aid in the professional growth of junior and senior engineers within the team

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
• Remote work