Affirm

Staff Software Engineer - SRE, Backend (Reliability Engineering)

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Pay$200000.00 - $250000.00 / year
LocationMyrtle Point/Oregon
Employment typeFull-Time

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  • Job Description

      Req#: 6533275003
      Employer Industry: Financial Technology

      Why consider this job opportunity:
      - Salary up to $275,000 per year for specific U.S. states
      - Opportunity for equity rewards and monthly stipends for health, wellness, and tech spending
      - Comprehensive benefits package, including 100% subsidized medical coverage for you and your dependents
      - Flexible remote work options, allowing you to work from almost anywhere in the U.S.
      - Competitive vacation and holiday schedules to support work-life balance
      - Commitment to an inclusive interview experience and reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities

      What to Expect (Job Responsibilities):
      - Set technical strategy vision for your team over a multi-year timeframe, aligning it with critical business-impacting projects
      - Collaborate across teams in the product development lifecycle to ensure technical sustainability and manage risks
      - Define and advocate for technical solutions and operational processes to act as a force-multiplier for your team
      - Take ownership of team operations and availability, ensuring proper monitoring, triage rotations, and alerting systems are in place
      - Foster a culture of quality and ownership by setting code review and design standards, and advocating them through writing and tech talks

      What is Required (Qualifications):
      - 8+ years of experience designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale using scripting and development languages like Bash, Python, or Kotlin
      - Extensive experience in developing highly available distributed systems using technologies such as AWS, MySQL, Spark, and Kubernetes
      - Proven track record of managing and improving the Incident Lifecycle process from live incident management through post-incident analysis
      - 7+ years of experience in Site Reliability or Production Engineering teams
      - Strong verbal and written communication skills for effective collaboration with global engineering teams and stakeholders

      How to Stand Out (Preferred Qualifications):
      - Experience delivering major features or system components, including defining technical and execution plans
      - Ability to thrive in ambiguity and understand both low-level language idioms and large system architectures
      - Demonstrated mastery in gathering and iterating on feedback from engineering and cross-functional peers

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  • About the company

      With Affirm, you can pay over time at your favorite brands. No late fees or compounding interest—just a more responsible way to say yes to the things you love.

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