Senior Kubernetes Policy Automation Engineer

3 hours ago

Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada Affirm, Inc. Full-time

Build Kubernetes policy automation for Affirm’s remote-first Canadian engineering organization, using admission control, infrastructure software, and shared standards. Drive compliance from day one.

As a senior Workload Safety engineer, you will take standards from research through enforcement across Affirm’s EKS fleet. You will create self-service guidance, mentor engineers, and lead adoption across teams running services, batch jobs, and ML workloads. Your work will support availability, latency, risk, and cost decisions.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Research and prototype workload safety standards
  • Provide onboarding and self-service guidance to engineering teams
  • Build controllers, operators, or admission policy guardrails
  • Lead design, code review, and operational readiness standards
  • Adapt Kubernetes community practices to Affirm’s needs

Requirements:

  • Five-plus years of production Kubernetes experience at scale
  • Experience enforcing standards through admission control and policy-as-code
  • Proficiency in Go or Python
  • Track record leading initiatives across multiple teams
  • Strong written communication for adoptable standards and guidance

Use Kubernetes policy, Go or Python, and technical leadership to make Affirm’s EKS workloads safer and more consistent.