Principal Software Engineer
Infrastructure, Infrastructure Platform
Posted on 8/25/2022
INACTIVE
Affirm

1,001-5,000 employees

Point of sale installment loans for consumers
Company Overview
Affirm seeks to deliver honest financial products—to improve lives. The company operates a buy-now-pay-later platform for consumers at the point of sale.
Financial Services
Consumer Goods
Data & Analytics

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

$2.9B

Founded

2012

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Growth & Insights
Headcount

6 month growth

0%

1 year growth

-6%

2 year growth

3%
Locations
Canada • Remote
Experience Level
Entry
Junior
Mid
Senior
Expert
CategoriesNew
DevOps & Infrastructure
Requirements
  • Prior work building and operating cloud SaaS products with a focus on scale and site reliability
  • Ability to synthesize complex technical requirements, design options, and constraints into clear decisions
  • Technologists fluent with past and current patterns for large scale software systems
  • Leadership experience at a division or whole company scope
  • Passion for providing an extraordinary experience for customers
  • Tool builders and sharers who strive to reduce toil and improve efficiency
  • Hard-won wisdom gained in the school of hard knocks lessons troubleshooting and tuning production systems and recovering from production incidents
Responsibilities
  • Partner with teams to evolve and enhance infrastructure features, operations, and platform ergonomics
  • Lead technology strategy, research, and design to craft innovative solutions that unlock scale and availability
  • Stay on top of industry trends for infrastructure and cloud technologies and cross-pollinate those ideas and processes with Affirm platform and practices
  • Lead vendor Proof of Concept explorations and develop and deepen strategic vendor relationships
  • Participate in hiring, coaching, and mentoring engineers across the organization
  • Be an integral part of Affirm's Engineering leadership, helping improve and mature architecture, products, and engineering practices