Manager of Release Engineering, Affirm
Developer Productivity, CI/CD
$200-275k
Salary dependent on location. Plus ESPP
POS installment loans
Open for applications
POS installment loans
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$200-275k
Salary dependent on location. Plus ESPP
1001+ employees
Company mission
To deliver honest and transparent financial products that improve users' lives.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of software engineering experience, with 2+ years in engineering management preferably within DevOps, Release Engineering, or Infrastructure
- Demonstrated success in operating releases at scale, with proven ability to balance release velocity, reliability, and compliance
- Strong technical background in distributed systems and cloud-native infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, etc.)
- Experience building and scaling release operations, CI/CD pipelines, and service orchestration frameworks
- Track record of leading cross-functional initiatives that improved release quality, developer experience, and system reliability
- Ability to balance deep technical insight with people leadership, guiding architecture decisions while mentoring engineers
- Excellent communication skills, capable of aligning diverse stakeholders on release priorities and outcomes
What the job involves
- The Release Engineering team is part of Affirm’s Developer Productivity team and plays a critical role in ensuring that our services are built, tested, and delivered to production with speed, reliability, and safety
- We design and operate release operations and processes that empower hundreds of engineers to confidently ship changes into the distributed systems that power Affirm’s financial products
- Our mission is to establish world-class release practices and tooling, enabling engineering teams to deliver features quickly while maintaining Affirm’s high bar for quality, compliance, and availability
- As a Release Engineering Manager, you will lead a team of engineers and coordinators that run the pipelines, orchestration frameworks, and automation that power every release across the company
- You will be responsible for scaling tooling and processes that underpin Affirm’s global platform while collaborating across engineering, product, and compliance teams to continuously improve how we deliver software at scale
- This is a hands-on leadership role where you will shape technical strategy, grow talent, and raise the bar for how we release distributed systems at Affirm
- Lead a team responsible for the end-to-end operation of releases at scale, ensuring services are delivered safely, reliably, and on time
- Define and execute the vision and roadmap for Release Ops, balancing speed, compliance, and stability across Affirm’s distributed systems
- Drive operational excellence by continuously improving release processes, incident response practices, and reliability during deployments
- Partner with engineering and product leadership to identify needs related to deployments and developer productivity
- Drive the strategic roadmap for expanding deployment safety and tooling by collaborating closely with CI/CD and other Developer Productivity teams
- Build and evolve release tooling, orchestration, and observability systems that reduce friction and eliminate risk in shipping software
- Set and uphold quality and compliance guardrails that meet both regulatory requirements and internal standards
- Coach, mentor, and develop engineers and release coordinators, fostering a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and innovation
Our take
Affirm offers point-of-sale loans to consumers, working with merchants like Shopify, KAYAK, and Walmart. Buy now, pay later transactions have grown in popularity in recent years, and this business is tapping into the market with a totally different approach to credit - by delivering the Affirm card, the first US debit card with the option to pay-over-time.
Boasting over 21M consumers and 337,000+ merchants, the company offers flexible payback options, ranging from 3 to 36 months. The interest rates run between 0% and 30%, so, while they are not necessarily the cheapest option, Affirm prides itself on having no fees for late payments, no hidden charges, and total transparency about what people will pay before they take out a loan.
Affirm collects payments from the customers and pays the merchants directly, shouldering the risk itself. The company has boosted its market share, expanding its availability beyond the US to include most of Canada, and continues to launch new features and create new partnerships towards bettering its offering.
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Insights
-11% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Sep 2020
$500m
SERIES G
Apr 2019
$300m
SERIES F
Total funding: $1.1bn
Company benefits
- Compensation: We have a simple, flexible, and transparent remote-first compensation structure so you can make the best decisions for yourself and your family
- Spending Wallets: Access tech, food, lifestyle, and family planning wallets for your expenses
- Supportive Communities: Get involved with our employee resource groups and community groups
- Remote-first Workforce: If your role is remote, you can set up shop anywhere in your home country
- Generous Time Off: Take the time you need when life happens
- Health Benefits: Get a plan that fits your needs
- Mental Healthcare: Take care of your mind with great mental health programs
- Parental Leave: Birth and non-birth parents get 18 weeks’ paid leave. Plus, a 4-week return-to-work transition program, at full base pay
- Away Days: We offer 20 company-wide paid days off—which help our teams collectively pause to recharge
- Learning & Development: Engage in exciting learning programs to level up your growth
Company HQ
Chinatown, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Max Levchin
(Co-Founder & CEO)Has founded/co-founded numerous companies, holding various executive positions at each, including Paypal, Slide, Glow, HVF Labs, and SciFi VC. Also worked at large brands including Google, Yelp, Yahoo, and Evernote.
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