Remote Staff Backend Engineer – CI/CD & Build Systems

Affirm; Sioux Falls (SD); On-site; USD 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care coverage

Flexible Spending Wallets

Competitive vacation and holiday schedules

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Affirm is looking for a CI/CD Engineer to enhance developer experiences and improve productivity through innovative tooling and practices. The role involves optimizing build systems and mentoring other engineers, contributing to the vision for developer productivity infrastructure.

Affirm offers a remote-first work environment with a transparent pay structure, base pay ranging from $200,000 - $250,000 per year based on location. Benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, generous stipends, and an employee stock purchase plan.

Qualifications

• Proven experience driving and leading engineering efforts in CI, build systems, or developer productivity domains.
• Strong programming background and ability to guide technical decision-making.
• Proficiency with managing build systems for large monorepos.

Responsibilities

• Own the design, scalability, and reliability of build and pipelines across multiple services.
• Work closely with engineering to ensure smooth integrations and deployment.
• Contribute to the vision for continuous integration and developer productivity infrastructure.

Skills

CI/CD practices

Modern build systems (GitHub, Buildkite, Artifactory, Bazel)

Cloud-native environments (AWS, Kubernetes)

Programming (Python, Kotlin, Java)

Problem-solving skills

Open source contributions

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience

Tools

Bazel

Job description

Affirm is looking for a CI/CD Engineer to enhance developer experiences and improve productivity through innovative tooling and practices. The role involves optimizing build systems and mentoring other engineers, contributing to the vision for developer productivity infrastructure.

Affirm offers a remote-first work environment with a transparent pay structure, base pay ranging from $200,000 - $250,000 per year based on location. Benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, generous stipends, and an employee stock purchase plan.