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Affirm is seeking a Software Engineer II to join their Capacity Engineering team. This role focuses on optimizing cloud infrastructure and distributed systems at scale. The engineer will contribute to building and scaling Affirm's infrastructure globally, ensuring it is engineering-efficient, developer-friendly, cost-effective, resilient, performant, and secure.
Role involves:
- Breaking down larger projects into individual tasks and delivering them in phases.
- Collaborating with product management, design, and analytics teams.
- Creating and monitoring metrics, escalating issues, and supporting on-call efforts.
- Assisting with right-sizing compute and data workloads.
- Providing technical guidance on capacity tuning.
Requirements:
- 1.5+ years of experience as a software engineer.
- Experience designing, developing, and launching backend systems.
- Proficiency in Python or Kotlin.
- Familiarity with distributed systems, AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience.
Affirm offers:
- Competitive benefits.
- Health care coverage (100% subsidized medical, dental, and vision).
- Flexible Spending Wallets for technology, food, lifestyle, and family forming expenses.
- Competitive vacation and holiday schedules.
- Employee stock purchase plan.
