2 months ago
Remote, CanadaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Set technical strategy for the team on a year-long horizon and connect it to critical business-impacting projects.
- Design tooling, automation, and processes that scale cost governance across cloud and AI infrastructure.
- Build cost visibility, alerting, anomaly detection, dashboards, and self-service systems for cloud and AI spend.
- Collaborate with product management, design, analytics, infrastructure, and platform leaders on technical sustainability, risks, and trade-offs.
- Own team operations and availability by establishing monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing, alerting, and on-call practices.
- Set code review and design standards and advocate for engineering quality through writing and technical talks.
- Develop team talent through feedback, guidance, and leading by example.
- Influence cost strategy and turn ambiguous spending questions into durable systems and self-service tooling.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale.
- Extensive experience developing highly available distributed systems with technologies such as AWS, MySQL, Spark, and Kubernetes.
- Experience building dashboards, anomaly detection, or savings and waste reporting with a FinOps or cost-visibility platform such as FinOut, CloudHealth, Kubecost, or an internal equivalent.
- Experience building scalable, self-service automation or tooling with Python, Terraform, or similar technologies.
- Hands-on experience working with cloud billing and cost data at scale, including AWS Cost & Usage Reports and Snowflake or similar data warehouses.
- Strong SQL skills for modeling spend, allocating costs, and creating unit-economics views from raw billing data.
- Experience delivering major features or system components, deprecating existing functionality, and creating technical and execution plans.
- Ability to write high-quality, understandable code and work from low-level language details through large-system architecture.
- Strong record of gathering and applying feedback from engineering and cross-functional peers.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
Benefits
- Remote-first role open to candidates residing in specified Canadian provinces.
- Affirm covers health care premiums for employees and dependents, including medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Flexible Spending Wallets provide 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.
Tech Stack
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.