Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Streaming)

Overview

Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Streaming) at Affirm. The Streaming team designs and builds real-time data processing pipelines and supports event-driven architecture across online and offline workloads, leveraging open source technologies (Kafka, Flink, Spark) and custom solutions to handle massive data across distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and build data infrastructure systems, services and tools to securely scale for millions of users and transactions.
• Build and optimize high-throughput, low-latency data pipelines for critical business applications.
• Develop frameworks and services used by other engineering teams to manage billions of dollars in loans and power customer experiences.
• Support the Streaming team as the backbone for online and offline workloads at Affirm.
• Improve reliability and efficiency of the Data Platform at scale with high availability.
• Collaborate with ML and Analytics teams to deliver streaming solutions for various use-cases and best practices.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and maintain production streaming systems to ensure data availability and reliability.

What We Look For

Location and Compensation

Location : Remote Canada. Pay Grade : P. Equity Grade : 7. Base pay range : CAN base pay range per year : $178,000 - $228,000. Affirm focuses on a simple and transparent pay structure based on location, experience and skills. Base pay may be part of total compensation including stipends and benefits.

Benefits

Affirm is remote-first. Some roles may require office presence. Equal opportunity employer statement and accommodations : We provide inclusive interview experiences and reasonable accommodations as needed. By applying you acknowledge Affirm’s Global Candidate Privacy Notice.

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