Senior Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Online Storage)

Affirm is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to join their Online Storage team. This role is crucial for building and maintaining a scalable datastore platform. The engineer will collaborate with product, infrastructure, and SRE teams to align strategies with Affirm's goals. They will leverage experience in creating multi-region, horizontally scalable, globally available, and high-performance datastore solutions.

Role Involves:

• Designing and building a scalable datastore platform.
• Collaborating with other teams on database needs and providing guidance.
• Participating in an on-call rotation to solve production issues.
• Upgrading, cost optimizing, and maintaining databases.
• Leading the development of self-service database platforms.
• Establishing best practices for database solutions and management.
• Ensuring adoption of best practices to improve production health.
• Staying ahead of industry trends and identifying innovation opportunities.
• Mentoring engineers and fostering a culture of technical excellence.

Requirements:

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering.
• 6+ years of hands-on experience with MySQL and Distributed SQL, including schema design, query optimization, and performance tuning.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems concepts.
• Proficiency in at least two of Kotlin, Python, Go, Rust.
• Strong proficiency in operating automation tools to manage database infra like Terraform and Ansible.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

What Affirm Offers:

• Health care coverage (all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents)
• Flexible Spending Wallets
• Competitive vacation and holiday schedules
• ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan