Software Engineer - SRE, Backend; Reliability Engineering

Overview

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.
• 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
• Recommending observability and alerting configurations

• You have 7+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin.
• You have an extensive track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL, Spark and Kubernetes.
• You have 7+ years experience in a Site Reliability or Production Engineering team. You demonstrate curiosity with empathy, and strong opinions loosely held.
• You have experience delivering major features, system components or deprecating existing functionality in a system through the definition of a technical and execution plan. You write high quality code that is easily understood and used by others.
• You thrive in ambiguity, and are comfortable moving from low level language idioms all the way to the architecture of large systems to understand how they work.
• Your growth and impact trajectory demonstrates that you have mastered gathering and iterating on feedback from your engineering and cross-functional peers.
• You have strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team.
• This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field.

• Base Pay Grade - P
• Equity Grade - 13
• Base pay range (USA CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT): $225,000 - $275,000 per year
• Base pay range (USA all other states): $200,000 - $250,000 per year
• Location:
  
  Remote - US

• Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for you and your dependents
• Flexible Spending Wallets - stipends for Technology, Food, lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses
• Time off - vacation and holiday schedules
• ESPP - Employee stock purchase plan

Affirm is proud to be a remote-first company. The majority of roles are remote and you can work almost anywhere within the country of employment. A limited number of roles remain office-based due to job responsibilities.

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• Mid-Senior level

• Full-time

• Engineering and Information Technology