Affirm is hiring a
Senior Staff Software Engineer

Summary

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.

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

Responsibilities

• In coordination with senior ICs and stakeholder teams, create and champion a long-term technical roadmap for the creation and adoption of reliability practices across Affirm
• Promote culture of ownership, curiosity, and data-driven decision making
• Elevate architecture, technical design, and code review with resiliency as a first class citizen, coaching team members on effective design and code reviews with the customer journey as the primary focus
• Influence and provide reliability guidance to Infrastructure teams to deliver solutions that improve customer experience
• Drive and simplify cross functional investigations around complex issues involving people, software, and systems
• Engage with product management to understand their needs, accelerate feature development velocity, and enable improved insights into their service while improving operational reliability
• Support the growth of the Infrastructure organization by hiring, coaching, and supporting senior engineers in technical contributor roles
• Foster a culture of technical excellence, humility, constant improvement, and rigor within your team to enable them to undertake challenges across multiple technical domains
• Provide leadership in the implementation of incident management and reliability principles
• Focus on the human interaction with reliability systems to enable quicker incident resolution

Benefits

• 100% subsidized medical coverage
• Dental and vision for you and your dependents