Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Privacy Engineering)

Summary

Join Affirm's team as a Senior Cloud Engineer to design, build, and own highly durable and strongly consistent cloud-based storage solutions. Collaborate with other teams to solve production issues and participate in an on-call rotation. Learn bleeding-edge open source technologies like Kubernetes and Vitess.

Requirements

• 5+ years of development experience
• Experience leading design and execution and delivery of backend software projects
• Hands-on coding and debugging experience using modern software delivery methods to develop services using Python , Go, or JVM-based languages (Java, Kotlin, Scala)
• Experience with designing and owning highly available, fault-tolerant backend systems using cloud storage services
• Experience with AWS and/or other cloud providers like Azure , GCP etc
• Strong understanding of CS fundamentals such as Distributed Systems, Database Systems, Operating Systems, algorithms, and data structures

Responsibilities

• Leading and mentoring engineers to define and execute on a roadmap aligned with stakeholder needs
• Design, build, and a highly durable and strongly consistent cloud based storage solutions
• Design, build and own an infrastructure platform that provides critical support for operating database systems at scale
• Design and build structured storage solutions that solve for privacy first storage solutions
• Collaborate with other teams on their database needs and provide continuous guidance on design and architecture
• Participating in an on-call rotation and collaborating with other teams such as SRE to solve production issues

Benefits

• 100% subsidized medical coverage
• Dental and vision for you and your dependents
• Flexible Spending Wallets for tech, food and lifestyle
• Away Days - wellness days to take off work and recharge
• Learning & Development programs
• Parental leave