Senior Backend Data Platform Engineer (Remote)

Affirm; Regina; On-site; CAD 153,000 - 213,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care coverage

ESPP - Employee stock purchase plan

Time off - vacation & holidays

Flexible Spending Wallets

Job summary

Affirm is building a data platform that enables engineers to design, deploy, and operate data applications at scale with strong governance and secure access. The role emphasizes reliability tooling, automated provisioning, and self-service capabilities across analytical infrastructure.

You will work on RBAC, data masking, and secure data access patterns while integrating with CI/CD pipelines and internal systems.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with cloud data platforms and governance.
• Proficiency in Python and SQL for building platform services.
• Experience in CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Strong focus on reliability, observability, and incident handling.
• Ability to design developer tooling and self-service capabilities.
• Familiarity with semantic layer or AI-ready tooling is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate core platform capabilities for data applications at scale.
• Develop integrations between the platform and internal systems (CI/CD, identity, APIs).
• Strengthen data access and governance with RBAC, masking, secure views.

Skills

Python

SQL

CI/CD

Observability

Platform tooling

Security

Communication

Incident response

Tools

Docker

GitHub Actions

Buildkite

Job description

Affirm is building a data platform that enables engineers to design, deploy, and operate data applications at scale with strong governance and secure access. The role emphasizes reliability tooling, automated provisioning, and self-service capabilities across analytical infrastructure.

You will work on RBAC, data masking, and secure data access patterns while integrating with CI/CD pipelines and internal systems.