<div>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.</div>Affirm is looking for a Staff Software Engineer for our Cloud Compute team to play a pivotal role in ensuring the robust and scalable foundation of our entire platform. As a fully remote team based in Spain, we are the engine room that manages all of Affirms Kubernetes clusters. Our mission is to provide a highly reliable and available cloud environment that empowers all of Affirms engineering teams to build and deploy innovative solutions seamlessly. We are a tight-knit, collaborative group passionate about automation and implementing best-in-class practices. Youll be instrumental in driving initiatives to enhance our observability capabilities, fortify the reliability of our critical infrastructure, and automate key operational workflows. This role offers a unique opportunity to shape the future of Affirms cloud infrastructure, work with cutting-edge technologies, and have a significant impact on the stability and efficiency of our entire engineering organization. If youre a proactive and skilled cloud engineer who thrives in a remote setting and is passionate about Kubernetes, automation, and operational excellence. What Youll Do <ul> <li>You will be responsible for setting technical strategy for your team on a year-long time scale, and help your team tie it together with critical, business-impacting projects.</li> <li>You will collaborate across teams in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design &amp; analytics to ensure technical sustainability, risks and trade-offs are well understood and managed.</li> <li>You will act as a force-multiplier for your team through your definition and advocacy of technical solutions and operational processes.</li> <li>You take ownership of your team’s operations and availability by ensuring you have the right monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing and alerting in place to support “keep the lights on” &amp; on-call efforts.</li> <li>You will foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting code review and design standards for your team, and advocating for them beyond your team through your writing and tech talks.</li> <li>You will help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example.</li> </ul> What We Look For <ul> <li>You have an extensive track record of developing and deploying highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, Kubernetes.</li> <li>Have excellent troubleshooting skills on cloud and distributed systems.</li> <li>Extensive experience automating deployments using Kubernetes.</li> <li>You have experience delivering major features, system components or deprecating existing functionality in a system through the definition of a technical and execution plan. You write high quality code that is easily understood and used by others.</li> <li>You thrive in ambiguity, and are comfortable moving from low level language idioms all the way to the architecture of large systems to understand how they work.</li> <li>Your growth and impact trajectory demonstrates that you have mastered gathering and iterating on feedback from your engineering and cross-functional peers.</li> <li>You have strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team.</li> </ul> Affirm is looking for a Staff Software Engineer for our Cloud Compute team to play a pivotal role in ensuring the robust and scalable foundation of our entire platform. As a fully remote team based in Spain, we are the engine room that manages all of Affirms Kubernetes clusters. Our mission is to provide a highly reliable and available cloud environment that empowers all of Affirms engineering teams to build and deploy innovative solutions seamlessly. We are a tight-knit, collaborative group passionate about automation and implementing best-in-class practices. Youll be instrumental in driving initiatives to enhance our observability capabilities, fortify the reliability of our critical infrastructure, and automate key operational workflows. This role offers a unique opportunity to shape the future of Affirms cloud infrastructure, work with cutting-edge technologies, and have a significant impact on the stability and efficiency of our entire engineering organization. If youre a proactive and skilled cloud engineer who thrives in a remote setting and is passionate about Kubernetes, automation, and operational excellence. What Youll Do <ul> <li>You will be responsible for setting technical strategy for your team on a year-long time scale, and help your team tie it together with critical, business-impacting projects.</li> <li>You will collaborate across teams in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design &amp; analytics to ensure technical sustainability, risks and trade-offs are well understood and managed.</li> <li>You will act as a force-multiplier for your team through your definition and advocacy of technical solutions and operational processes.</li> <li>You take ownership of your team’s operations and availability by ensuring you have the right monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing and alerting in place to support “keep the lights on” &amp; on-call efforts.</li> <li>You will foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting code review and design standards for your team, and advocating for them beyond your team through your writing and tech talks.</li> <li>You will help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example.</li> <li>On-Call Rotation - There would be an on-call rotation for this role as a requirement.</li> </ul> What We Look For <ul> <li>You have an extensive track record of developing and deploying highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, Kubernetes.</li> <li>Have excellent troubleshooting skills on cloud and distributed systems.</li> <li>Extensive experience automating deployments using Kubernetes.</li> <li>You have experience delivering major features, system components or deprecating existing functionality in a system through the definition of a technical and execution plan. You write high quality code that is easily understood and used by others.</li> <li>You thrive in ambiguity, and are comfortable moving from low level language idioms all the way to the architecture of large systems to understand how they work.</li> <li>Your growth and impact trajectory demonstrates that you have mastered gathering and iterating on feedback from your engineering and cross-functional peers.</li> <li>You have strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team.</li> </ul> <h3>Compensation &amp; Benefits</h3> Base Pay Grade - P Equity Grade - Poland 5 Employees new to Affirm typically come in at the start of the pay range. Affirm focuses on providing a simple and transparent pay structure which is based on a variety of factors, including location, experience and job-related skills.  Base pay is part of a total compensation package that may include monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending, and benefits (including 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents). In addition, the employees may be eligible for equity rewards offered by Affirm Holdings, Inc. (parent company). POL base pay range per year: 358,000 zł - 458,000 zł   Additional benefits include: <ul> <li>Type of employment: Contract of Employment</li> <li>Flexible Spending Wallets for tech, food and lifestyle</li> <li>Away Days - wellness days to take off work and recharge</li> <li>Learning &amp; Development programs</li> <li>Parental benefits</li> <li>Employee Resource &amp; Community Groups</li> </ul> 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.** #LI-Remote<div><div> Affirm is proud to be a remote-first company! The majority of our roles are remote and you can work almost anywhere within the country of employment. Affirmers in proximal roles have the flexibility to work remotely, but will occasionally be required to work out of their assigned Affirm office. A limited number of roles remain office-based due to the nature of their job responsibilities. We’re extremely proud to offer competitive benefits that are anchored to our core value of people come first. Some key highlights of our benefits package include:  <ul> <li>Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents </li> <li>Flexible Spending Wallets - generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses</li> <li>Time off - competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge</li> <li>ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount</li> </ul> We believe It’s On Us to provide an inclusive interview experience for all, including people with disabilities. We are happy to provide reasonable accommodations to candidates in need of individualized support during the hiring process. [For U.S. positions that could be performed in Los Angeles or San Francisco] Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, Affirm will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. </div> <div> By clicking Submit Application, you acknowledge that you have read Affirms <a href="https://www.affirm.com/global-candidate-privacy-notice" target="_blank">Global Candidate Privacy Notice</a> and hereby freely and unambiguously give informed consent to the collection, processing, use, and storage of your personal information as described therein. </div></div>

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