3 months ago
Remote, CanadaSenior
Base Salary
$153k - $213k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and implement platform features for provisioning, deployment, access control, service lifecycle management, and reliability tooling.
- Build and maintain integrations with CI/CD pipelines, identity and secrets management, external APIs, and event-driven systems.
- Design and operate secure analytical data access patterns, including RBAC, managed-access schemas, dynamic data masking, secure views, and cross-database grants.
- Automate access provisioning, data pipeline failure handling, service health management, and secrets management to enable self-service.
- Build telemetry, alerting, logging infrastructure, runbooks, and operational patterns that improve diagnosis and recovery.
- Participate in on-call coverage, production incident triage, and platform maintenance.
- Contribute to semantic layer infrastructure, agentic application patterns, and AI-native data tooling.
- Maintain high standards in code review, design, operational readiness, and incident follow-through.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience operating a cloud analytical data platform such as Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, or a similar platform, including access control, data masking, governance, compute management, and cost optimization.
- Experience building and operating containerized applications, including Docker image management, deployment automation, production rollouts, and pipeline design using tools such as Buildkite or GitHub Actions.
- Experience building internal platforms, developer tooling, or self-service infrastructure for engineers.
- Experience integrating systems through REST APIs, OAuth/OIDC, webhook ingestion, secrets management, egress networking, and identity or SSO patterns in a managed cloud environment.
- Proficiency in Python and SQL for reliable, maintainable platform services.
- Strong operational ownership, including instrumentation, runbooks, alert ownership, on-call participation, root cause analysis, and durable incident fixes.
- Familiarity with or interest in semantic layer design, LLM-integrated platform workflows, and agentic data tools.
- Strong written and verbal communication and the ability to collaborate across application, security, infrastructure, and platform teams.
Benefits
- Remote-first work arrangement, with most roles allowing work almost anywhere within the country of employment.
- Affirm covers 100% of medical, dental, and vision premiums for employees and dependents.
- Flexible Spending Wallets with stipends for technology, food, lifestyle, and family-forming expenses.
- Competitive vacation and holiday schedules.
- Employee stock purchase plan with discounted shares.
- Reasonable accommodations are available during the hiring process.
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.