Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Streaming)

Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Streaming)

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About the Role

The Streaming team at Affirm drives the strategy for event‑driven architecture, stream processing, replication, data exploration, discovery and validation. We leverage open‑source technologies such as Kafka, Flink, Spark, and also build our own tools to design and build real‑time data processing pipelines that handle massive volumes across distributed systems. As a member of the team you will identify and execute on new use cases, design and scale existing infrastructure, and collaborate with other teams to promote optimized data usage throughout the company.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and build data infrastructure systems, services and tools to secure scale over millions of users and transactions.
• Build and optimize high‑throughput, low‑latency data pipelines for critical business applications.
• Develop frameworks and services used by engineering teams to manage billions of dollars in loans and power customer experiences.
• Support the core streaming architecture that underpins online and offline workloads.
• Improve reliability and efficiency of the data platform at scale with high availability.
• Collaborate with ML and Analytics teams to deliver streaming solutions based on use‑cases and best practices.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and maintain production streaming systems, ensuring high availability and reliability.

What We Look For

Location

Remote Canada

Compensation

Pay Grade : P & Equity Grade : 7

Base pay range per year : $178,000 - $228,000

Benefits

EEO Statement

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Seniority Level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment Type

Full‑time

Job Function

Engineering and Information Technology

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