Senior Staff Software Engineer - Reliability

September 17

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Affirm

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eCommerce • Payments • Installment Loans • Millennials • Financial Services

1001 - 5000

💰 Post-IPO Equity on 2021-01

Description

• Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest. • 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. • Reliability Engineering at Affirm is a small yet crucial team, building out the SRE Central Model that creates reliability best practices, tooling, frameworks, and then drives their adoption across Affirm. Our Vision is to enable all teams to “operate what they own” with excellence, while providing white-glove support for critical services that deliver our most impactful products to Affirm’s customers.

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 focused 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)

Benefits

• Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents • Flexible Spending Wallets - generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses • Time off - competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge • ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount