Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Backend (Reliability Engineering)

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

Responsibilities

Site 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 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 benefits from experience across many domains including :

infrastructure, platform, and distributed systems

capacity management, load and chaos testing

automation, observability, and configuration management

development and product experience

The 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 Do

You 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” and 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 For

You 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 team

You demonstrate curiosity with empathy, and strong opinions loosely held

You 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 & Benefits

Base Pay Grade

Equity Grade

Base pay is part of a total compensation package that may include equity rewards, monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending, and benefits (including 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents).

CAN base pay range per year : $150,000 - $200,000

Affirm is remote-first. The majority of our roles are remote, with some roles requiring office presence. A limited number of roles remain office-based due to the nature of their job responsibilities.

Benefits

Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents

Flexible Spending Wallets - stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses

Time off - vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to rest and recharge

ESPP - Employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount

We’re committed to an inclusive interview experience for all, with reasonable accommodations available during the hiring process.

[For U.S. positions that could be performed in Los Angeles or San Francisco] Affirm will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with local laws.

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Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Engineering and Information Technology

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