Senior Software Engineer, Affirm

• At least 6 years of industry experience, including 4+ years as DevOps
• Proven coding skills, preferably Python, Golang or Kotlin
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes
• Experience in public cloud (preferably AWS)
• Design and development of highly available systems (99.99%+ SLA)
• Infrastructure as a code - preferably Terraform
• Mentoring and enabling other engineers
• Extensive knowledge of monitoring solutions (e.x. Prometheus, ELK)
• Cost management

Desirable

• This is a mission critical role of ensuring our large scale infrastructure systems are healthy, automated and designed to scale
• You will be partnering closely with the product and platform engineering teams to maintain high availability and reliability SLAs for Affirm services
• Analyse, review internal Affirm applications to design and implement improvements
• Ensure high availability of our cloud infrastructure
• Optimise Kubernetes clusters and resources within
• Manage infrastructure using best practices of infrastructure as a code
• Secure business continuity and compliance needs through secure and resilient infrastructure
• Provide self-service solutions for Affirm engineers to streamline their work
• Write high-quality, testable, and easily digestible code that will serve as best practice templates
• Review other’s code and designs and provide constructive feedback to meet our high quality standards
• Design, create and expand monitoring and visibility systems to ensure the stability of our team's services
• Serve as a technical resource across engineering, especially in guiding product development teams in areas of performance, reliability, and scalability
• Provide daily and on-call support to other engineering teams
• Optimise Affirm systems and code for cost efficiency, security and compliance