Remote Infra Foundations Engineering Manager

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

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

Equity rewards

ESP P – stock purchase plan

Tech stipends

Job summary

Affirm is building a global, scalable infrastructure for its credit platform. We are seeking an engineering manager to lead the Infra Foundations team, owning roadmap, reliability, and growth of engineers. You will drive foundational AWS provisioning, networking, IAM, and IaC automation across multiple accounts.

You will mentor engineers, partner with security, and ensure least-privilege access while delivering high-impact infrastructure improvements and reliable operations at scale.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software or infrastructure engineering experience
• 2+ years of engineering management experience
• Strong background in cloud-native infrastructure systems (AWS preferred)
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and GitOps workflows

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the vision and multi-quarter roadmap for Infra Foundations
• Lead and mentor a team of infrastructure engineers
• Partner with engineering leadership to align priorities with goals
• Own reliability and safety of the foundational layer (AWS provisioning, VPC networking, IAM)
• Drive automation frameworks for provisioning and teardown of stacks

Skills

Team leadership

Cloud engineering

IAM security

Terraform

Spacelift

GitOps

Python/Go/Kotlin

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Job description

Affirm is building a global, scalable infrastructure for its credit platform. We are seeking an engineering manager to lead the Infra Foundations team, owning roadmap, reliability, and growth of engineers. You will drive foundational AWS provisioning, networking, IAM, and IaC automation across multiple accounts.

You will mentor engineers, partner with security, and ensure least-privilege access while delivering high-impact infrastructure improvements and reliable operations at scale.