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

• 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

What We Look For

Base Pay and Benefits

Base Pay Grade - N

Equity Grade - 6

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 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). Employees may be eligible for equity rewards offered by Affirm Holdings, Inc. (parent company).

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

Affirm is proud to be a remote-first company. The majority of roles are remote and you can work almost anywhere within the country of employment. Some roles may be office-based or require occasional on-site work depending on responsibilities.

Benefits

We’re proud to offer competitive benefits anchored to our core value of people come first. Highlights include :

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