Staff Software Engineer (Service Infrastructure)

We are looking to hire Staff DevOps Engineer in the  Service Infrastructure team. 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.  We are looking for engineers with strong coding or operations background and passion for scalable and resilient cloud infrastructure, who pride themselves in creating self-healing resilient and secure infrastructure.

What you see below is a team spec - do not worry if you don't fit all the criteria. We are looking for Cloud engineers that can work together as a DevOps team and provide best solutions for other engineers at Affirm

What you’ll do

• 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.

What we look for

• At least 9 years of industry experience, including 5+ years as DevOps
• Proven coding or scripting skills, preferably Python, Golang or Kotlin
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes
• Experience in public cloud (preferably AWS)
• Design and development of highly available systems (99.999%+ SLA)
• Infrastructure as a code - preferably Terraform
• Mentoring and enabling other engineers
• Extensive knowledge of monitoring solutions (e.x. Prometheus, ELK)
•  Cost management
• Coaching, public speaking, managing communities
• Mentoring and enabling other engineers

Additional skills

• Developing multi-region cloud solutions
• Solid experience in cloud networking - both on cloud and within Kubernetes
• Experience with databases and optimizing database usage within infrastructure
• Good knowledge of SDLC tooling, including CICD systems, artifact and container repositories

Pay Grade - POL 31
Employees new to Affirm or promoted into a new role, typically begin in the min to mid range.

POL base pay range per year:
Min: 309,500 PLN
Mid: 386,800 PLN
Max: 464,200 PLN

We offer a competitive package, with some highlights listed below. However, the given figures are not guaranteed compensation ranges; rather, they are unbinding, approximate indications of what the salary may be for your awareness. The actual salary may be less than the lower range or greater than the upper range, depending on skills and experience. No employee is guaranteed salary at the amount of the lower range.

• Flexible Spending Wallets for tech, food and lifestyle
• Generous time off policies
• Away Days - wellness days to take off work and recharge
• Learning & Development programs
• Parental leave
• Robust health benefits
• Employee Resource & Community Groups
• This role has a potential sign-on bonus of up to 10% of your base salary. Eligibility is determined at the offer stage.
• This role is eligible for creative tax benefits, subject to applicable law and company policy

Location - Remote Poland

*The majority of our roles can be located anywhere in Poland.
**This job description is not a contractual document, and is not intended to have binding force.**

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