Remote Senior Staff Software Engineer (Reliability)

Description:

• The Senior Staff Software Engineer will create and champion a long-term technical roadmap for the adoption of reliability practices across Affirm
• They will promote a culture of ownership, curiosity, and data-driven decision making
• Elevate architecture, technical design, and code review with resiliency as a priority, coaching team members on effective design and code reviews
• Provide reliability guidance to Infrastructure teams to enhance customer experience
• Drive cross-functional investigations around complex issues involving people, software, and systems
• Collaborate with product management to accelerate feature development velocity and improve operational reliability
• Support the growth of the Infrastructure organization by hiring, coaching, and supporting senior engineers
• Foster a culture of technical excellence, humility, constant improvement, and rigor within the team
• Lead the implementation of incident management and reliability principles
• Focus on human interaction with reliability systems to enable quicker incident resolution

Requirements:

• 10+ years of software development experience with expertise in Python, Kotlin, Rust, Java, C++, or GoLang
• Ability to synthesize complex technical requirements, designs, trade-offs, and capabilities into clear decisions
• Strong communication skills to effectively convey decisions and practices to the engineering organization
• At least 5+ years of experience in two different SRE organizational structures
• 5+ years of hands-on work in infrastructure and scaling distributed systems
• 5+ years of technical leadership on SWE and Reliability teams focused on infrastructure, reliability, and software engineering at scale
• Hands-on experience with k8s and AWS in a production environment
• Experience in improving reliability in a growing company and working closely with other senior and staff engineers
• Track record of mentoring and developing technical leaders
• Deep knowledge of incident management, post-incident review, and incident analysis
• Expertise in developing and implementing effective Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs)

Benefits:

• Affirm offers a competitive benefits package including health care coverage for you and your dependents
• Flexible Spending Wallets with generous stipends for various needs
• Competitive vacation and holiday schedules for time off
• Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount