Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer - SRE, Backend (Reliability Engineering)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.ResponsibilitiesSite Reliability Engineering at Affirm is a small, yet crucial, team that helps our Engineering partners to “Operate What They Own” with excellence to protect their customers’ experience. SRE accomplishes this through defining frameworks and best practices for operating applications, building tooling, and providing training and consulting. Some of the many SRE responsibilities are:Providing data and visibility to teams and leadership on application performanceGuiding the development of SLOsDriving the Incident Management and Analysis processSteering the implementation of Change Management and Deployment practicesEngaging in service and architectural conversationsRecommending observability and alerting configurationsThe SRE team benefits from experience across many domains including:infrastructure, platform, and distributed systemscapacity management, load and chaos testingautomation, observability, and configuration managementdevelopment and product experienceThe SRE team is seeking motivated software engineers with the experience to build and expand reliability and resilience practices throughout Affirm's Engineering organization and beyond.What You'll DoYou will be responsible for owning and delivering quarterly goals for your team, leading engineers on your team through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems, and ensuring that everyone is supported throughout delivery.You will support your peers and stakeholders in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics by participating in ideation, articulating technical constraints, and partnering on decisions that properly consider risks and trade-offs.You will proactively identify project, process, technology or business issues, advocate for them, and lead in solving them.You will support the operations and availability of your team’s artifacts by creating and monitoring metrics, escalating when needed, and supporting “keep the lights on” & on-call efforts.You will foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting or improving 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 ForYou have 4+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin.You have a track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes.You have 4+ years working in a Site Reliability or Production Engineering teamYou demonstrate curiosity with empathy, and strong opinions loosely heldYou have experience defining a technical plan for the delivery of a significant feature or system component with an elegant, simple and extensible design. You write high quality code that is easily understood and used by others.You are proficient at making significant changes in a large code base, and have developed a suite of tools and practices that enable you and your team to do so safely.Your experience demonstrates that you take ownership of your growth, proactively seeking feedback from your team, your manager, and your stakeholders.You have strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team.Compensation and BenefitsBase pay range per year: $150,000 - $200,000Benefits include:Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependentsFlexible Spending Wallets - generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expensesTime off - competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and rechargeESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discountAffirm is proud to be a remote-first company and is an equal opportunities employer. #J-18808-Ljbffr