Manager, Software Engineering (Infra Foundations)

Affirm, Inc.; Canada; Hybrid; CAD 181,000 - 241,000; Full time

Job summary

Affirm, Inc. is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Infra Foundations team to lead the foundational layer across AWS provisioning, IAM, core networking, and IaC workflows.

This remote Canada role focuses on driving multi-quarter roadmaps, mentoring engineers, and maintaining reliability while scaling infrastructure globally. You will guide architecture and execution across accounts, VPC networking, and IAM, while promoting GitOps and automation through Terraform/Spacelift.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in software or infrastructure engineering with 2+ years in management.
• Experience leading infrastructure or platform teams.
• Strong cloud-native/infrastructure systems background (AWS preferred).
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Spacelift) and GitOps.
• Experience building and operating infrastructure automation.
• Proven reliability-focused operations (monitoring, incident response).
• Strong leadership, communication, and mentoring skills.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the multi-quarter roadmap for Infra Foundations.
• Lead and mentor a team of infra engineers, owning hiring and growth.
• Align Infra Foundations priorities with broader goals.
• Own the reliability and safety of the foundational layer (AWS provisioning, IAM).
• Drive automation frameworks for safe provisioning and teardown.
• Manage AWS quota, AMI patching, and Ansible configuration management.
• Establish SLAs for IAM requests and incident response.
• Partner with Security on least-privilege access governance.
• Promote self-service tooling and knowledge sharing.

Skills

Leadership

Python

Go

Kotlin

Terraform

Spacelift

AWS

VPC networking

IAM

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Spacelift

GitOps

Ansible

Terraform

Job description

Manager, Software Engineering (Infra Foundations)

Remote Canada

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.

Affirm's engineering team is building a large-scale, highly available, and global infrastructure that is shared across multiple financial products. Ensuring that our infrastructure is accessible to all engineers is critical to the success of the business. We pride ourselves on our culture across engineering of engaging in thorough technical design review, operational excellence, and capable incident response and analysis.

The Infra Foundations team owns the foundational layer that every other infrastructure team builds on: AWS account provisioning, human IAM access, core networking, the IaC frameworks and workflows, and the automation that provisions and manages our cloud environments. Our mission is to provide a foundational infrastructure layer across all AWS accounts that is consistent, reliable, safe, and trustworthy, empowering every infrastructure team to provision, update, and delete their stacks quickly and safely through well-established workflows and automation.

We are looking for an engineering manager to lead this team, own its roadmap and operational health, and grow the engineers who keep Affirms infrastructure foundation solid as we scale globally.

What You’ll Do

• Define and drive the vision and multi-quarter roadmap, tying foundational investments to critical, business-impacting outcomes while protecting space for tech-debt reduction and reliability work
• Lead and mentor a team of infrastructure engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, and technical excellence, and owning hiring, performance, and career growth
• Partner with engineering leadership and stakeholders to align Infra Foundations priorities with broader infrastructure, platform, and security goals
• Own the reliability and safety of the foundational layer: AWS account provisioning and bootstrapping, core networking (VPCs and interconnectivity), and human IAM access
• Drive the team's automation charter, delivering frameworks that let other infra teams provision, update, and tear down complex stacks and whole environments safely on the existing IaC rails (GitHub, Spacelift)
• Steward critical operational programs including AWS quota management and notifications, AMI patch management, and Ansible-based configuration management
• Establish and hold the operational bar: SLAs for IAM requests, quota alerting thresholds, incident response for networking changes, and automated validation of provisioning and teardown
• Partner with Security to enforce least-privilege IAM and ensure recommended permissions are adopted across teams
• Drive smooth adoption of Infra Foundations frameworks and best practices through self-service tooling, documentation, and knowledge sharing

What We Look For

• 7+ years of software or infrastructure engineering experience, with 2+ years of engineering management experience
• Proven experience leading engineering teams in infrastructure, platform engineering, or adjacent domains
• Strong technical background in cloud-native and infrastructure systems (AWS preferred), with the ability to guide architecture and execution across accounts, VPC networking, and IAM
• Experience owning or leading Infrastructure-as-Code practices (Terraform, Spacelift, or equivalent) and GitOps-style workflows
• Experience building and operating infrastructure automation that other teams adopt and depend on
• Track record of operating services with a high reliability bar (monitoring, on-call, incident response, postmortems, continuous hardening)
• Strong operational judgment and the ability to drive clarity, prioritization, and execution across a broad, heterogeneous surface area
• Familiarity with least-privilege IAM models and partnering with Security on access governance
• Strong programming background (Python, Go, or Kotlin preferred)
• Strong communication and organizational leadership skills, with a track record of mentoring and growing high-performing teams
• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience

This posting is for an existing vacancy

This remote role is open only to candidates residing in Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, or Saskatchewan.

Base Pay Grade- P

Equity Grade- 7

Employees new to Affirms typically come in at the start of the pay range. Affirms 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 Affirms Holdings, Inc. (parent company).

CAN base pay range per year: $ 181,000 - $ 241,000 CAD.

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. Affirms in proximal roles have the flexibility to work remotely, but will occasionally be required to work out of their assigned Affirms 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:

• Health care coverage - Affirms covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents
• Flexible Spending Wallets - generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses
• Time off - competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge
• ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirms at a discount

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, Affirms will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.