Remote Staff Backend Engineer – CI/CD & Build Systems

Affirm; Raleigh (NC); On-site; USD 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care coverage

Flexible Spending Wallets

Competitive time off

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Affirm is seeking a skilled CI Engineer to optimize developer workflows and improve build systems. You will design scalable infrastructure, ensuring reliability and efficiency among engineering teams. Ideal candidates will have experience in CI/CD and modern build systems like GitHub and Bazel, along with programming skills in Python or similar languages.

This remote-first role offers a competitive salary between $200,000 - $250,000 annually, alongside comprehensive benefits including healthcare, equity rewards, and generous stipends.

Qualifications

• Proven experience driving engineering efforts in CI and build systems.
• Strong background in modern build tools.
• Familiarity with cloud-native environments and infrastructure-as-code.

Responsibilities

• Own design, scalability, and reliability of CI systems.
• Work closely across engineering for integrations and deployments.
• Contribute to vision for continuous integration infrastructure.

Skills

CI/CD

Build systems

AWS

Kubernetes

Python

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Tools

GitHub

Buildkite

Bazel

Job description

Affirm is seeking a skilled CI Engineer to optimize developer workflows and improve build systems. You will design scalable infrastructure, ensuring reliability and efficiency among engineering teams. Ideal candidates will have experience in CI/CD and modern build systems like GitHub and Bazel, along with programming skills in Python or similar languages.

This remote-first role offers a competitive salary between $200,000 - $250,000 annually, alongside comprehensive benefits including healthcare, equity rewards, and generous stipends.