Remote Infra Foundations Engineering Manager

Affirm; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 181,000 - 241,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

ESPP

Flexible spending wallets

Generous vacation

Job summary

Affirm is seeking an engineering manager to lead its Infra Foundations team, owning the roadmap and the health of this foundational layer as the company scales globally. You will guide cloud-native infrastructure, AWS provisioning, VPC networking, and IAM, while enabling other infra teams through robust automation and IaC practices.

You will mentor engineers, drive reliability through SLAs and incident response, partner with Security on least-privilege access, and push GitOps workflows with

Qualifications

• 7+ years in software or infrastructure engineering with 2+ years in engineering management.
• Experience leading engineering teams in infrastructure, platform engineering, or adjacent domains.
• Strong background in cloud-native and infrastructure systems (AWS preferred).
• 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 programming background (Python, Go, or Kotlin preferred).

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the vision and multi-quarter roadmap, tying foundational investments to critical, business-impacting outcomes.
• 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.

Skills

Infrastructure leadership

Cloud networking

Terraform

Spacelift

GitOps

IAM governance

Python

Go

Kotlin

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

GitHub

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Affirm is seeking an engineering manager to lead its Infra Foundations team, owning the roadmap and the health of this foundational layer as the company scales globally. You will guide cloud-native infrastructure, AWS provisioning, VPC networking, and IAM, while enabling other infra teams through robust automation and IaC practices.

You will mentor engineers, drive reliability through SLAs and incident response, partner with Security on least-privilege access, and push GitOps workflows with