Staff Software Engineer (Service Infrastructure)

Affirm, Inc.; Cádiz; A distancia; EUR 60.000 - 85.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

A leading company in financial technology is seeking a Staff DevOps Engineer to manage and optimize their large scale cloud infrastructure. This role emphasizes the need for strong coding skills, particularly in Python or Golang, and expertise in Kubernetes while providing crucial support and guidance across engineering teams. The position offers the opportunity to work on mission-critical systems, ensuring high availability and compliance in a fully remote setting based in Spain.

Servicios

100% subsidized medical coverage

Flexible Spending Wallets for tech, food and lifestyle

Wellness days (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 AWS.
• Proven coding skills, preferably in Python or Golang.

Responsabilidades

• Ensure high availability of cloud infrastructure.
• Manage infrastructure using best practices of infrastructure as code.
• Provide technical resource guidance across engineering teams.

Conocimientos

Python

Golang

Kubernetes

AWS

Infrastructure as Code

Cost Management

Monitoring Solutions

Descripción del empleo

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 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 see below is a team spec - do not worry if you don't fit all the criteria. We are looking for Cloud engineers that can work together as a DevOps team and provide best solutions for other engineers at Affirm

What you’ll do

• Analyse, review internal Affirm applications to design and implement improvements.
• Ensure high availability of our cloud infrastructure
• Optimise Kubernetes clusters and resources within
• Manage infrastructure using best practices of infrastructure as a 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 other’s 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.
• Optimise Affirm systems and code for cost efficiency, security and compliance.
• On-Call Rotation - There would be an on-call rotation for this role 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 a code - preferably Terraform
• Mentoring and enabling other engineers
• Extensive knowledge of monitoring solutions (e.x. Prometheus, ELK)
• Cost management
• Coaching, public speaking, managing communities
• Mentoring and enabling other engineers

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 CICD 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, the 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.

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