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Base Salary
$236k - $325k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect and evolve Affirm’s EKS platform across cluster lifecycle, node management, and shared cluster components.
- Lead standardized infrastructure-as-code provisioning, upgrades, teardown, and self-service workflows using Terraform and Spacelift.
- Own the reliability, automation, observability, and delivery pipeline for shared Kubernetes components across the fleet.
- Define and enforce workload safety standards covering resource configuration, isolation, blast radius, disruption tolerance, and autoscaling.
- Build policy enforcement and automation that moves platform standards from research and onboarding to broad adoption and enforced defaults.
- Establish observability, audits, reporting, metrics, and risk baselines for platform and workload reliability.
- Partner with platform, product, SRE, ML, analytics, DevProd, traffic, and capacity teams to shape the platform.
- Drive node scaling, bin packing, EC2 instance selection, cost, and capacity strategy.
- Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across Compute Platform teams.
- Participate in on-call rotations, triage Kubernetes issues, and collaborate with SRE on production incidents.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software or infrastructure engineering experience delivering complex platform solutions.
- 6+ years of hands-on experience operating production Kubernetes at scale, ideally EKS on AWS.
- Deep expertise in EKS and Kubernetes internals, including upgrades, node lifecycle, scheduling, autoscaling, and workload reliability patterns.
- Experience automating Kubernetes operations at fleet scale through self-healing remediation, policy enforcement, and auditable self-service workflows.
- Experience with admission control, OPA/Gatekeeper or equivalent policy frameworks, and automated platform standards.
- Infrastructure-as-code fluency with Terraform and GitOps or pipeline-driven delivery models such as ArgoCD or kube-applier.
- Strong AWS cloud-native architecture experience with EC2, VPC, IAM, and EKS.
- Expert-level proficiency in Go or Python and experience building production Kubernetes controllers, operators, and platform tooling.
- Experience defining SLOs, metrics, logs, alerting, and data-driven baseline audits.
- Demonstrated technical leadership, mentorship, cross-functional influence, and ability to establish standards across many teams.
- A Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience.
Benefits
- Remote-first work arrangement with flexibility within the country of employment, occasional in-person work depending on the position, and in-person onboarding for new hires.
- 100% subsidized medical coverage for employees and dependents, plus dental and vision benefits.
- Monthly technology, health, and wellness spending stipends.
- Flexible time off and generous holiday calendars.
- Employee stock purchase plan with discounted Affirm stock.
- Inclusive interview process with accommodations available for candidates with disabilities.
About Affirm
Affirm provides buy now, pay later installment financing at online and in-store checkout, along with a consumer app and virtual card, for shoppers and merchants. It monetizes through merchant fees and interest on select loans, with no late fees. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, Affirm is a public company listed on NASDAQ that powers payments for thousands of ecommerce retailers.