Staff Software Engineer (Infrastructure Platform) at Affirm

Affirm is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join their Infrastructure Platform Engineering team. The successful candidate will ensure the reliability, availability, and operational efficiency of Affirm’s distributed systems.

This role is ideal for engineers who thrive in highly scalable, cloud-native environments, focusing on incident response, observability, automation, and system resilience. As part of the Platform, Reliability and Infrastructure Operations group, the engineer will work on proactive failure mitigation, operational tooling, service scaling strategies, and on-call effectiveness.

Affirm is scaling fast, and this role will help ensure the platform’s resilience as it operates across multiple regions. The candidate will be responsible for setting technical strategy, collaborating across teams, acting as a force-multiplier for the team, taking ownership of team operations and availability, fostering a culture of quality and ownership, and helping develop talent on the team.

What This Role Involves:

• Setting technical strategy for the team.
• Collaborating across teams in the product development lifecycle.
• Acting as a force-multiplier for the team.
• Taking ownership of the team’s operations and availability.
• Fostering a culture of quality and ownership on the team.
• Helping develop talent on the team.

Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience as a software engineer.
• Proficiency in designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale technologies like Python, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes.
• Proficiency in developing web apps using declarative UI frameworks like React or Vue.
• Experience defining a technical plan for the delivery of a significant feature or system component.
• Experience in automating operational tasks, deployments, failover processes, and scaling strategies.
• Experience delivering major features, system components, or deprecating existing functionality.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

What This Role Offers:

• Competitive benefits package including healthcare coverage, flexible spending wallets, and time off.
• Employee stock purchase plan.
• Opportunity to work remotely.