Senior Manager, Software Engineering (Data & Storage Services)

Senior Manager, Software Engineering (Orchestration Services)

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The Data and Storage Services team is responsible for handling all of affirm’s Data (OLAP and OLTP) requirements and encompasses the entire range from critical online checkout databases all the way to our Batch Orchestration, Streaming Infrastructure, Event Driven Frameworks, BI and analytics tools and systems. Our mission is to provide trustworthy, intuitive, and cost‑efficient solutions for affirmers to secure, store, analyze, and transform data at exceptional scale.

We’re looking for an experienced Engineering Leader to lead our growing Data and Storage Services organization, specifically our Orchestration Services team. You will bring a wealth of experience in managing teams and success in delivering highly technical multi‑quarter roadmaps. You will also need to be fairly comfortable with ambiguity and possess tools to work through tough deadlines, craft strategy and drive execution. You will be able to work with your teams, as well as product stakeholder teams, to define architectural / organizational future states that we can scale to in the future. You will need to make balanced calls that align with our forward‑looking vision and current business & technology critical needs.

What You’ll Do

• Lead a team of engineers and managers with empathy while fostering a high‑performance, ownership‑driven & inclusive culture to develop frameworks, systems, and tools for new affirm products.
• Oversee teams managing storage services including relational, key‑value, and analytics storage infrastructure and tools at scale.
• Understand and drive business and engineering metrics, promoting a culture of reliability, security, and productivity.
• Collaborate with tech leads, program managers, and other engineering managers on security, tools, architecture, planning, and delivery of multiple concurrent projects.
• Work across the engineering organization and with internal and external partners.
• Provide leadership and growth opportunities to team members, mentor engineers, recruit, and represent affirm hiring brands.
• Lead technical decisions, projects, and roadmaps within the Batch and Streaming teams, shaping affirm’s strategy for managing and serving orchestration workloads.
• Collaborate with peers, leadership, and stakeholders across platform engineering and product engineering organizations.
• In collaboration with tech leads, develop a multi year roadmap to design and implement frameworks, services, and tools for new affirm products and business needs.
• Guide, tutor, and aid in the professional growth of junior and senior engineers within the team.

What We Look For

Pay Grade : R

Equity Grade : 09

CAN base pay range per year : $206,000 - $256,000

Affirm is proud to be a remote‑first company! The majority of our roles are remote and you can work almost anywhere within the country of employment. affirmers in proximal roles have the flexibility to work remotely, but will occasionally be required to work out of their assigned affirm office. A limited number of roles remain office‑based due to the nature of their job responsibilities.

Benefits

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