Senior Manager, Software Engineering; Data & Storage Services

Senior Manager, Software Engineering (Data & Storage Services)

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 Data and Storage Services team is responsible for handling all of affirm’s data (OLAP and OLTP) requirements and encompasses the entire range from critical online checkout databases to batch orchestration, streaming infrastructure, event‑driven frameworks, BI and analytics tools and systems. Our mission is to provide trustworthy, intuitive, and cost‑efficient solutions for affirmers to secure, store, analyze, and transform data at exceptional scale.

We’re looking for an experienced engineering leader to lead our growing Data and Storage Services organization, specifically our Online Storage team. You will bring a wealth of experience in managing teams and delivering highly technical multi‑quarter roadmaps. You will be comfortable with ambiguity, have tools to work through tough deadlines, craft strategy and drive execution, and be able to work with teams and product stakeholder teams to define architectural/organizational future states that we can scale to in the future.

You will need to make balanced calls that align with our forward‑looking vision and current business & technology critical needs.

• Lead a team of engineers and managers with empathy while fostering a high‑performance, ownership‑driven & inclusive culture to develop frameworks, systems, and tools for new affirm products.
• Oversee teams managing storage services including relational and key‑value storage infrastructure and tools at scale.
• Understand and drive business and engineering metrics, promoting a culture of reliability, security, and productivity.
• Collaborate with tech leads, program managers, and other engineering managers on security, tools, architecture, planning, and delivery of multiple concurrent projects.
• Work across the engineering organization and with internal and external partners.
• Provide leadership and growth opportunities to team members, mentor engineers, recruit, and represent affirm hiring brands.
• Lead technical decisions, projects, and roadmaps within the Online Storage team, shaping affirm’s strategy for managing and serving relational and key‑value storage workloads.
• Collaborate with peers, leadership, and stakeholders across platform engineering and product engineering organizations.
• In collaboration with tech leads, develop a multi‑year roadmap to design and implement frameworks, services, and tools for new affirm products and business needs.
• Guide, tutor, and aid the professional growth of junior and senior engineers within the team.

• Solid leadership and interpersonal skills.
• 10+ years of experience in managing multiple diverse and inclusive teams and delivering large cross‑functional technical programs.
• Proven track record in stakeholder management, ownership, and successful delivery.
• Depth in cache architecture and lifecycle management: tiered cache design, eviction and TTL policies, warm‑up/priming strategies, consistency models, back pressure, and thundering‑herd protection.
• Track record operating low‑latency, high‑throughput storage and caching platforms in production, e.g., Redis or Memcached, Dynamo
  
  DB and MySQL/Postgre
  
  SQL/TiDB/Cockroach/Vitess, multi‑region topologies, and cross‑region replication strategies.
• Capability for mentorship, cross‑functional project execution, and individual contribution.
• Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills with a growth mindset.
• Experience in the data infrastructure domain and a passion for leading technical teams and contributing to open‑source solutions.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

Pay Grade - R

Equity Grade - 15

Employees new to affirm typically come in at the start of the pay range. affirm focuses on providing a simple and transparent pay structure which is based on a variety of factors, including location, experience and job‑related skills.

Base pay is part of a total compensation package that may include equity…