Staff Software Engineer, Platform & Infrastructure
Qualified.com$230,000 - $260,000/year
- Full Time
- Expert & Leadership (9+ years)
Not SpecifiedCompensation
Expert & Leadership (9+ years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
Financial Services, Fintech, Cloud ComputingIndustries
Position Overview
- Location Type: Remote (Spain)
- Job Type: Full-time
- Salary: Not specified (Base Pay Grade: P, Equity Grade: 6)
Affirm is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for their Cloud Compute team. This fully remote team in Spain manages all of Affirm's Kubernetes clusters, providing a reliable and available cloud environment for all engineering teams. The role involves driving initiatives to enhance observability, fortify infrastructure reliability, and automate operational workflows, with a significant impact on the stability and efficiency of the engineering organization.
Requirements
- Extensive track record of developing and deploying highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS and Kubernetes.
- Excellent troubleshooting skills for cloud and distributed systems.
- Extensive experience automating deployments using Kubernetes.
- Experience delivering major features, system components, or deprecating existing functionality through technical and execution plans.
- Ability to write high-quality, easily understood code.
- Thrives in ambiguity, comfortable analyzing systems from low-level idioms to high-level architecture.
- Proven ability to gather and iterate on feedback from engineering and cross-functional peers.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills for effective collaboration.
- Must be willing to participate in an on-call rotation.
Responsibilities
- Set technical strategy for the team on a year-long time scale and lead business-impacting projects.
- Collaborate across teams (product management, design & analytics) to ensure technical sustainability and manage risks/trade-offs.
- Act as a force-multiplier for the team by defining and advocating for technical solutions and operational processes.
- Own team operations and availability by ensuring proper monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing, and alerting for "keep the lights on" and on-call efforts.
- Foster a culture of quality and ownership by setting and advocating for code review and design standards.
- Develop team talent through feedback, guidance, and leading by example.
Compensation & Benefits
- Base Pay Grade: P
- Equity Grade: 6
- Affirm focuses on a simple and transparent pay structure based on location, experience, and job-related skills.
- Total compensation package may include monthly stipends for health, wellness, and tech spending, and benefits (including 100% subsidized medical coverage).
Skills
Kubernetes
Cloud Infrastructure
Automation
Observability
Operational Excellence
Scalability
Reliability
Monitoring
Distributed Systems
Affirm
Provides buy now, pay later financing solutions
About Affirm
Affirm offers point-of-sale financing solutions as an alternative to traditional credit cards. It allows consumers to make purchases and pay over time through installment plans, often without hidden fees or deferred interest. Affirm partners with merchants to integrate its payment solutions into online and in-store shopping experiences, using user-friendly plugins and APIs. The company generates revenue from interest and fees on loans to consumers, as well as fees from merchants for offering its financing options. Affirm also provides a merchant dashboard for transaction processing and promotional tools to help businesses market these financing options effectively. The goal of Affirm is to empower consumers with flexible payment options while providing value to merchants in the e-commerce and retail markets.
San Francisco, CaliforniaHeadquarters
2012Year Founded
$1,113.8MTotal Funding
IPOCompany Stage
Fintech, Financial ServicesIndustries
1,001-5,000Employees