Manager, Software Engineering; Edge Traffic

Manager, Software Engineering (Edge Traffic)
Queens, Prince Edward Island, Canada

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.

The Traffic Eng team owns affirm’s critical routing and network infrastructure to run affirm’s core product.  As a team we build and expose simple interfaces of online infrastructure components.  Examples of components we own include the CDN edge routing layer to cache and optimize requests to , the RPC layer for internal service‑to‑service communication, and our gateway and sidecar artifacts to control traffic.

What You'll Do

Lead engineering teams responsible for Edge Traffic Infrastructure, ensuring our networking architecture evolves and remains resilient to affirm’s growing needs.

Define and deliver a vision, strategy, and roadmap over a year‑long time scale for ingress and egress points of our system, tying that roadmap back to business impact.

Collaborate across infrastructure, security, and other engineering teams to build reliable, secure, and scalable networking infrastructure to meet the needs of our external partners and internal teams.

Improve key metrics for availability, performance, and resiliency.

Take ownership of your team’s operations and availability by ensuring the right monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, testing, and alerting are in place to support “keep the lights on” & on‑call efforts.

Foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting code review and design standards and advocating for them beyond your team through your writing and tech talks.

Help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example.

What We Look For

7+ years of engineering experience with 2+ years leading teams focused on infrastructure, networking, compute, or distributed systems.

Proven track record in stakeholder management, ownership, and successful delivery.

Expertise in managing large‑scale, geographically distributed cloud infrastructure systems centered on compute, networking, or databases.

Expertise in scaling networking infrastructure like CDN, Load Balancers, or API Gateways. Familiarity with AWS, GCP, or Azure and vendors like Cloudflare, Fastly, or Akamai.

Experience delivering major features, system components, or deprecating existing functionality through a clear technical and execution plan. Write high quality code that is easily understood and used by others.

Thriving in ambiguity, moving from low level language idioms to large system architecture to understand how they work.

Strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team.

Growth and impact trajectory that demonstrates mastering gathering and iterating on feedback from peers.

Pay Grade – 9

Equity Grade – 7

Employees new to affirm typically start at the beginning of the pay range.  affirm focuses on a simple and transparent pay structure based on location, experience, and job‑related skills.

Base pay is part of a total compensation package that may include equity rewards, monthly stipends for health, wellness, and tech spending, and benefits (including 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental, and vision for you and your dependents).  Employees may also be eligible for equity rewards offered by affirm holdings, inc. (parent company).

CAN base pay range per year: $178,000 – $228,000

Benefits

Health care coverage – affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents.

Flexible Spending Wallets – generous stipends for spending on technology, food, lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses.

Time off – competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge.

ESPP – Employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of affirm at a discount.

We believe it’s on us to provide an inclusive interview experience for all, including people with disabilities. We are happy to provide reasonable accommodations for candidates in need of individualized support during the hiring process.

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Seniority level
Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function
Engineering and Information Technology

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