Staff Software Engineer - SRE, Backend (Reliability Engineering)

Affirm

103d • $200,000 - $275,000

About The Position

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. Site Reliability Engineering at Affirm is a small, yet crucial, team that helps our Engineering partners to 'Operate What They Own' with excellence to protect their customers’ experience. SRE accomplishes this through defining frameworks and best practices for operating applications, building tooling, and providing training and consulting. Some of the many SRE responsibilities are: Providing data and visibility to teams and leadership on application performance, guiding the development of SLOs, driving the Incident Management and Analysis process, steering the implementation of Change Management and Deployment practices, engaging in service and architectural conversations, and recommending observability and alerting configurations. The SRE team benefits from experience across many domains including infrastructure, platform, and distributed systems, capacity management, load and chaos testing, automation, observability, and configuration management, and development and product experience. The SRE team is seeking motivated software engineers with the experience to build and expand reliability and resilience practices throughout Affirm's Engineering organization and beyond.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin.
• Extensive track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL, Spark and Kubernetes.
• 7+ years experience in a Site Reliability or Production Engineering team.
• Demonstrate curiosity with empathy, and strong opinions loosely held.
• Experience delivering major features, system components or deprecating existing functionality in a system through the definition of a technical and execution plan.
• Write high quality code that is easily understood and used by others.
• Thrive in ambiguity, and comfortable moving from low level language idioms to the architecture of large systems.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with a global engineering team.
• This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field.

Responsibilities

• Set technical strategy for your team on a year-long time scale and help tie it together with critical, business-impacting projects.
• Collaborate across teams in the product development lifecycle with product management, design & analytics to ensure technical sustainability, risks and trade-offs are well understood and managed.
• Act as a force-multiplier for your team through definition and advocacy of technical solutions and operational processes.
• Take ownership of your team’s operations and availability by ensuring the right monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing and alerting are in place.
• Foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting code review and design standards.
• Help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example.

Benefits

• 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents.
• Generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses.
• Competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge.
• An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees