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

• Set technical strategy vision for your team on a multi‑year time scale and help the team tie it together with critical, business‑impacting projects.
• Collaborate across teams in the product development lifecycle with infrastructure, product management, developer experience, and analytics to ensure technical sustainability, risks, and trade‑offs are well understood and managed.
• Act as a force‑multiplier for the team through definition and advocacy of technical solutions and operational processes.
• Take ownership of the team’s operations and availability by ensuring monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing, and alerting are in place to support "keep the lights on" and on‑call efforts.
• Foster a culture of quality and ownership on the team by setting code review and design standards and advocating for them beyond the team through writing and tech talks.
• Help develop talent on the team by providing feedback, guidance, and leading by example.

• 8+ years of experience designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale using scripting and development languages such as Bash, Python, or Kotlin.
• Extensive track record developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL, Spark, and Kubernetes.
• Experience managing, driving, and improving the Incident Lifecycle process from live incident management through retrospectives and post‑incident analysis to provide actionable insights.
• 7+ years experience in Site Reliability or Production Engineering teams.
• Demonstrated curiosity, empathy, and strong opinions held loosely.
• Experience delivering major features, system components, or deprecating existing functionality in a system through definition of a technical and execution plan. Write high quality code that is easily understood and used by others.
• Thriv e in ambiguity and comfortable moving from low‑level language idioms to large‑system architecture.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills supporting effective collaboration with our global engineering team and key stakeholders.
• Either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field.

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• 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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Mid‑Senior level

Full‑time

Engineering and Information Technology