Staff Software Engineer (Service Infrastructure)

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.

We are looking to hire Staff DevOps Engineer in the Service Infrastructure team. This is a mission critical role of ensuring our large scale infrastructure systems are healthy, automated and designed to scale. You will be partnering closely with the product and platform engineering teams to maintain high availability and reliability SLAs for Affirm services. We are looking for engineers with strong coding or operations background and passion for scalable and resilient cloud infrastructure, who pride themselves in creating self-healing resilient and secure infrastructure.

What you see below is a team spec - do not worry if you don't fit all the criteria. We are looking for Cloud engineers that can work together as a DevOps team and provide best solutions for other engineers at Affirm

What you’ll do

• Analyse, review internal Affirm applications to design and implement improvements.
• Ensure high availability of our cloud infrastructure
• Optimise Kubernetes clusters and resources within
• Manage infrastructure using best practices of infrastructure as a code
• Secure business continuity and compliance needs through secure and resilient infrastructure
• Provide self-service solutions for Affirm engineers to streamline their work
• Write high-quality, testable, and easily digestible code that will serve as best practice templates.
• Review other’s code and designs and provide constructive feedback to meet our high quality standards.
• Design, create and expand monitoring and visibility systems to ensure the stability of our team's services.
• Serve as a technical resource across engineering, especially in guiding product development teams in areas of performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Provide daily and on-call support to other engineering teams.
• Optimise Affirm systems and code for cost efficiency, security and compliance.
• On-Call Rotation - There would be an on-call rotation for this role as a requirement”.

What we look for

• At least 9 years of industry experience, including 5+ years as DevOps
• Proven coding or scripting skills, preferably Python, Golang or Kotlin
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes
• Experience in public cloud (preferably AWS)
• Design and development of highly available systems (99.999%+ SLA)
• Infrastructure as a code - preferably Terraform
• Mentoring and enabling other engineers
• Extensive knowledge of monitoring solutions …