Manager, Software Engineering (Edge Traffic)

Manager, Software Engineering (Edge Traffic)

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The Traffic Eng team owns Affirm’s critical routing and network infrastructure to run Affirm’s core product. Our customers are not only Affirm users, but also other engineering teams at Affirm. As a team, we are responsible for building and exposing simple interfaces of online infrastructure components, including the CDN edge routing layer to cache and optimize requests to Affirm.com, the RPC layer for internal service-to-service communication, and our gateway and sidecar artifacts to control traffic.

As the Engineering Manager for the Edge Traffic Team, you will lead a group of highly technical software and infrastructure engineers to build our resilient edge infrastructure.

What You’ll Do

• You will lead engineering teams responsible for Edge Traffic Infrastructure, ensuring our networking architecture evolves and remains resilient to Affirm's growing needs.
• You will define and deliver a vision, strategy, and roadmap on a year-long time scale for ingress and egress points of our system, tying that roadmap back to business impact.
• You will collaborate across infrastructure, security, and other engineering teams to build reliable, secure, and scalable networking infrastructure to meet the needs of our external partners and internal teams.
• You will improve key metrics for availability, performance, and resiliency.
• You will take ownership of your team’s operations and availability by ensuring you have the right monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, testing, and alerting in place to support “keep the lights on” & on‑call efforts.
• You will foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting 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

• 7+ years of engineering experience with 2+ years leading teams focused on infrastructure, networking, compute, or distributed systems.
• Proven track record in stakeholder management, ownership, and successful delivery.
• Expertise in managing large-scale, geographically distributed cloud infrastructure systems centered on compute, networking, or databases.
• Expertise in scaling networking infrastructure like CDN, Load Balancers, or API Gateways. Familiarity with cloud providers like AWS, GCP, or Azure and vendors like Cloudflare, Fastly, or Akamai.
• Experience delivering major features, system components or deprecating existing functionality in a system through the definition of a technical and execution plan. You write high quality code that is easily understood and used by others.
• You thrive in ambiguity and are comfortable moving from low level language idioms all the way to the architecture of large systems to understand how they work.
• Your growth and impact trajectory demonstrates that you have mastered gathering and iterating on feedback from your engineering and cross‑functional peers.
• You have strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team.

Pay Grade – 9

Equity Grade – 7

Employees new to Affirm typically come in at the start of the pay range. Affirm focuses on providing a simple and transparent pay structure based on a variety of factors, including location, experience, and job‑related skills. 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.) In addition, employees may be eligible for equity rewards offered by Affirm Holdings, Inc. (parent company).

Pay range per year: $178,000 – $228,000

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

• Health care coverage – Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents.
• Flexible Spending Wallets – generous stipends for spending on technology, food, various lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses.
• Time off – competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge.
• ESPP – An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount.

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Seniority level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Engineering and Information Technology

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