Senior Staff Software Engineer (Reliability)

Description:
? 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
? Join us to accelerate and ensure the resilience of Affirm?s ecosystem of honest financial products! We are looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer to build and evangelize Reliability practices throughout Affirm?s Infrastructure team and beyond.
? Reliability Engineering at Affirm is a small yet crucial team, building out the SRE Central Model that creates reliability best practices, tooling, frameworks, and then drives their adoption across Affirm.
? Our Vision is to enable all teams to ?operate what they own? with excellence, while providing white-glove support for critical services that deliver our most impactful products to Affirm?s customers.

Requirements: ? 10+ years of software development experience, including at least one of the following: Python, Kotlin, Rust, Java, C++, GoLang ?... Expertise in synthesizing complex technical requirements, designs, trade-offs, and capabilities into clear decisions, and influence product direction ? Ability to communicate decisions and practices to the engineering organization effectively ? At least 5+ years of experience in at least two different SRE organizational structures ? At least 5+ years of experience of hands-on work in infrastructure and scaling distributed systems ? At least 5+ years of technical leadership on SWE and Reliability teams focussed on infrastructure, reliability, and software engineering at scale ? Strong hands-on experience with k8s and AWS in a production environment ? Experience in encouraging a strong engineering culture and improving reliability in a growing company, including the ability to work closely with other senior and staff engineers to drive change ? Track record of successfully mentoring and developing technical leaders ? Deep knowledge of incident management, post-incident review, and incident analysis ? Expertise in developing and implementing effective Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) ? This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor?s degree in a related field.

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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