Staff Software Engineer, Platform & Infrastructure
Qualified.com$230,000 - $260,000/year
- Full Time
- Expert & Leadership (9+ years)
Not SpecifiedCompensation
Senior (5 to 8 years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
Financial Technology, Infrastructure SoftwareIndustries
Requirements
Candidates should possess a total of 8+ years of experience as a software engineer, proficiency in designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale utilizing technologies such as Python, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes, and expertise in developing web applications with declarative UI frameworks like React or Vue. They should also be proficient in ensuring high availability (HA) and resilience of critical services through runbooks, incident response strategies, and post-mortem analysis, and have experience defining a technical plan for the delivery of a significant feature or system component with an elegant, simple, and extensible design. Furthermore, they must be able to automate operational tasks, deployments, failover processes, and scaling strategies, and demonstrate experience delivering major features, system components, or deprecating existing functionality through a technical and execution plan.
Responsibilities
The Staff Software Engineer will be responsible for setting technical strategy for their team on a year-long time scale, collaborating across teams in the product development lifecycle, acting as a force-multiplier for their team through technical solutions and operational processes, taking ownership of their team’s operations and availability by ensuring appropriate monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, and alerting are in place, fostering a culture of quality and ownership through code review standards and advocating for them, and helping develop talent on their team by providing feedback and guidance. They will also partner with Observability and Reliability teams to proactively detect and mitigate potential outages, and collaborate closely with Storage & Replication, Cloud, CI/CD, and Security teams to ensure Affirm’s infrastructure meets high operational standards.
Skills
Distributed Systems
Cloud-Native Environments
Incident Response
Observability
Automation
System Resilience
Operational Tooling
Service Scaling
Monitoring
Triaging
Playbooks
Testing
Alerting
Code Review
Design Standards
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