Backend Observability Engineer – Telemetry Lead
Listed on 2026-11-06
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Software Development
Backend Developer
AFFIRM is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for Observability to lead the telemetry platform. You’ll code hands-on while shaping the roadmap, mentor six engineers, and partner with infrastructure and product teams to ensure reliability and performance at scale.
You’ll define strategies for log sampling, wide events, and instrumentation, balancing cost with signal fidelity, and you’ll champion quality, operability and cross‑functional collaboration across the organization.
As a Staff Backend Observability Engineer – Telemetry Lead, you will play an important part at Affirm, Inc. in Portland, OR, United States.
Step into the Staff Backend Observability Engineer – Telemetry Lead role at Affirm, Inc. in Portland, OR, United States and grow with us.
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