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Staff Software Engineer - SRE, Backend (Reliability Engineering)
Staff Software Engineer - SRE, Backend (Reliability Engineering)Affirm • Phoenix, AZ, United States
Staff Software Engineer - SRE, Backend (Reliability Engineering)

Staff Software Engineer - SRE, Backend (Reliability Engineering)

Affirm • Phoenix, AZ, United States
1 day ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

Overview

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.

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

The SRE Team Focus

  • Infrastructure, platform, and distributed systems
  • Capacity management, load and chaos testing
  • Automation, observability, and configuration management
  • Development and product experience
  • What You'll Do

  • You will be responsible for setting technical strategy for your team on a 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 product management, design & 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 teams 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.
  • What We Look For

  • You have 7+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin.
  • You have an extensive track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL, Spark and Kubernetes.
  • You have 7+ years experience in a Site Reliability or Production Engineering team. You demonstrate curiosity with empathy, and strong opinions loosely held.
  • You have experience delivering major features, system components or deprecating existing functionality in a system through the definition of a technical and execution plan. You write high quality code that is easily understood and used by others.
  • You 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.
  • Your growth and impact trajectory demonstrates that you have mastered gathering and iterating on feedback from your engineering and cross-functional peers.
  • You have strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team.
  • This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelors degree in a related field.
  • Location & Benefits

    Location : Remote - US. Affirm is proud to be a remote-first company. The majority of our roles are remote and you can work almost anywhere within the country of employment. A limited number of roles remain office-based due to the nature of their job responsibilities.

  • Base Pay Range (USA) : $225,000 - $275,000 (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT); $200,000 - $250,000 (other states)
  • Equity and additional benefits included in total compensation
  • Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for you and your dependents
  • Flexible Spending Wallets for Technology, Food, Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses
  • Time off and generous vacation / holiday schedules
  • Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
  • Affirm is committed to an inclusive interview experience for all. We provide reasonable accommodations to candidates in need of individualized support during the hiring process.

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    Seniority level : Mid-Senior level Employment type : Full-time Job function : Engineering and Information Technology

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