Staff Backend Cost Engineer — Remote, Scale Cloud Spend

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Flexible Spending Wallets

Time off

ESPP

Job summary

Affirm is seeking a Staff Cost Engineer to lead the cost governance for our multi-cloud and multi-AI-vendor infrastructure. You will shape technical direction, drive automation, and collaborate with product, design and analytics to ensure scalable, reliable backend systems.

You will own monitoring, incident readiness and cost visibility tooling, turning spend questions into durable insights and self-service dashboards. This role emphasizes leadership and architecture across the org.

Qualifications

• 8+ years designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale.
• Experience with cloud providers and cost visibility platforms.
• Ability to build automated tooling for self-service cost governance.

Responsibilities

• Set technical strategy for your team over a year-long horizon.
• Collaborate with product, design and analytics to ensure technical sustainability.
• Own operations, monitoring, playbooks and alerting to keep systems reliable.
• Lead with code quality standards and cross-team influence.
• Mentor teammates and drive talent development.

Skills

Backend design

Distributed systems

Cloud computing

FinOps

Automation tooling

SQL queries

Code quality

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

AWS

MySQL

Spark

Kubernetes

Terraform

Snowflake

Job description

Affirm is seeking a Staff Cost Engineer to lead the cost governance for our multi-cloud and multi-AI-vendor infrastructure. You will shape technical direction, drive automation, and collaborate with product, design and analytics to ensure scalable, reliable backend systems.

You will own monitoring, incident readiness and cost visibility tooling, turning spend questions into durable insights and self-service dashboards. This role emphasizes leadership and architecture across the org.