Software Engineer - SRE, Backend; Reliability Engineering

Staff Software Engineer - SRE, Backend (Reliability Engineering)

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• 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

• 8+ years of experience designing, developing, advocating as a point subject of reference, and launching backend systems at scale using scripting and development languages like Bash, Python or Kotlin.
• Extensive track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL, Spark and Kubernetes.
• Track record of managing, driving and improving the Incident Lifecycle process from live incident management through retrospective and post-incident analysis to provide actionable insights to enhance overall system reliability, resilience, and performance.
• 7+ years experience in Site Reliability or Production Engineering teams.
• Demonstrated curiosity with empathy, and strong opinions loosely held.
• Experience delivering major features, system components or deprecating existing functionality through the definition of a technical and execution plan. Write high quality code that is easily understood and used by others.
• Thrives in ambiguity, comfortable moving from low level language idioms to the architecture of large systems to understand how they work.
• Growth and impact trajectory demonstrates mastery of gathering and iterating on feedback from engineering and cross‑functional peers.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with the global engineering team and key stakeholders.
• Either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field.

Remote – US

USA base pay range (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT) per year: $225,000 - $275,000
USA base pay range (all other U.S. states) per year: $200,000 - $250,000

• 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, various lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses
• Time off – competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge
• ESPP – An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of affirm at a discount

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