Staff Software Engineer (Service Infrastructure)

TN Spain; Salamanca; A distancia; EUR 60.000 - 80.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

A leading company is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for its Service Infrastructure team. This role focuses on maintaining and optimizing cloud infrastructure, ensuring high availability and reliability. Candidates should have extensive experience in DevOps and strong coding skills, particularly with Kubernetes and cloud solutions. The position is remote but requires residency in Spain, with visa sponsorship available.

Servicios

Flexible Spending Wallets

Away Days

Parental Leave

Employee Resource & Community Groups

Formación

• At least 9 years of industry experience, including 5+ years as DevOps.
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes and public cloud (preferably AWS).

Responsabilidades

• Analyze and review internal Affirm applications to design and implement improvements.
• Ensure high availability of our cloud infrastructure.
• Manage infrastructure using best practices of infrastructure as code.

Conocimientos

Python

Golang

Kotlin

Kubernetes

Cloud Networking

Monitoring Solutions

Herramientas

Terraform

Prometheus

ELK

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Staff Software Engineer (Service Infrastructure) Client :

Affirm, Inc.

Location : Spain

Job Category : Other

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Posted :

30.03.2025

Expiry Date : 14.05.2025

Job Description :

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.

We are looking to hire a Staff DevOps Engineer in the Service Infrastructure team. This is a mission-critical role of ensuring our large-scale infrastructure systems are healthy, automated, and designed to scale. You will be partnering closely with the product and platform engineering teams to maintain high availability and reliability SLAs for Affirm services. We are looking for engineers with strong coding or operations background and passion for scalable and resilient cloud infrastructure, who pride themselves in creating self-healing resilient and secure infrastructure.

What you’ll do :

• Analyze and review internal Affirm applications to design and implement improvements.
• Ensure high availability of our cloud infrastructure.
• Optimize Kubernetes clusters and resources within.
• Manage infrastructure using best practices of infrastructure as code.
• Secure business continuity and compliance needs through secure and resilient infrastructure.
• Provide self-service solutions for Affirm engineers to streamline their work.
• Write high-quality, testable, and easily digestible code that will serve as best practice templates.
• Review others' code and designs and provide constructive feedback to meet our high-quality standards.
• Design, create, and expand monitoring and visibility systems to ensure the stability of our team's services.
• Serve as a technical resource across engineering, especially in guiding product development teams in areas of performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Provide daily and on-call support to other engineering teams.
• Optimize Affirm systems and code for cost efficiency, security, and compliance.
• Participate in on-call rotation as a requirement.

What we look for :

• At least 9 years of industry experience, including 5+ years as DevOps.
• Proven coding or scripting skills, preferably Python, Golang, or Kotlin.
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes.
• Experience in public cloud (preferably AWS).
• Design and development of highly available systems (99.999%+ SLA).
• Infrastructure as code - preferably Terraform.
• Mentoring and enabling other engineers.
• Extensive knowledge of monitoring solutions (e.g., Prometheus, ELK).
• Coaching, public speaking, managing communities.

Additional skills :

• Developing multi-region cloud solutions.
• Solid experience in cloud networking - both on cloud and within Kubernetes.
• Experience with databases and optimizing database usage within infrastructure.
• Good knowledge of SDLC tooling, including CI / CD systems, artifact and container repositories.

Base Pay Grade : P

Equity Grade : 6

Employees new to Affirm typically come in at the start of the pay range. Affirm 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, employees may be eligible for equity rewards offered by Affirm Holdings, Inc. (parent company).

Additional benefits include :

• Flexible Spending Wallets for tech, food, and lifestyle.
• Away Days - wellness days to take off work and recharge.
• Parental leave.
• Employee Resource & Community Groups.

Location : Remote Spain

We are able to offer visa sponsorship for this role, but do require that someone is based in Spain for the role.