Affirm · 1 day ago
Staff Software Engineer - SRE, Backend (Reliability Engineering)
Portland, OR
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/Staff
$225K/yr - $275K/yr
8+ years expAffirm 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 Staff Software Engineer - SRE will lead technical strategy, collaborate across teams, and ensure operational excellence in application performance and reliability.
Financial ServicesFinTechLendingPayments
Responsibilities
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
You will be responsible for setting technical strategy vision for your team on a multi year-long time scale, and help your team tie it together with critical, business-impacting projects
You will collaborate across teams in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with infrastructure, product management, developer experience & analytics to ensure technical sustainability, risks and trade-offs are well understood and managed
You will act as a force-multiplier for your team through your definition and advocacy of technical solutions and operational processes
You take ownership of your team’s operations and availability by ensuring you have the right monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing and alerting in place to support “keep the lights on” & on-call efforts
You will foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting code review and design standards for your team, and advocating for them beyond your team through your writing and tech talks
You will help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example
Qualification
Required
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
An 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
Demonstrate curiosity with empathy, and strong opinions loosely held
Experience delivering major features, system components or deprecating existing functionality in a system through the definition of a technical and execution plan
Write high quality code that is easily understood and used by others
Thrive in ambiguity, and are comfortable moving from low level language idioms all the way to the architecture of large systems to understand how they work
Growth and impact trajectory demonstrates that you have mastered gathering and iterating on feedback from your engineering and cross-functional peers
Strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team and key stakeholders of an organization
This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor's degree in a related field
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, 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
Company
Affirm
Affirm is a financial technology services company that offers installment loans to consumers at the point of sale.
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (104)
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$7.57BKey Investors
New York Life InsuranceSixth StreetPGIM Fixed Income
2025-10-31Post Ipo Debt· $750M
2024-12-17Post Ipo Debt· $800M
2024-12-13Post Ipo Debt· $4B
Leadership Team
Max Levchin
Founder & CEO
Robert O'Hare
Chief Financial Officer
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