Remote Staff Backend Engineer, Databases Platform

Affirm; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 204,000 - 264,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care coverage

Equity rewards

Time off

Technology stipend

Job summary

Affirm is a remote-first company seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead our Databases platform (Relational and Key-Value). You will help shape technical strategy, design scalable datastore components, and work with product, infrastructure, and SRE to ensure reliability across multi-region deployments.

The role requires deep expertise in backend systems and databases, strong cloud experience, and collaborative leadership. Join a company rewriting credit with transparent, affordable terms.

Qualifications

• 8+ years designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale.
• 5+ years hands-on database expertise (Relational/Distributed SQL).
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a related field.
• Strong communication and collaboration with global teams.

Responsibilities

• Set technical strategy for your team on a year-long horizon.
• Collaborate with product, infrastructure, and SRE to align roadmaps.
• Design and build scalable datastore components for multi-region deployments.
• Lead operations, monitoring, playbooks, and on-call readiness.

Skills

Backend systems

Python/Kotlin

Distributed systems

AWS

MySQL

Spark

Kubernetes

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

ProxySQL

PgBouncer

RDS Proxy

Vitess

Job description

Affirm is a remote-first company seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead our Databases platform (Relational and Key-Value). You will help shape technical strategy, design scalable datastore components, and work with product, infrastructure, and SRE to ensure reliability across multi-region deployments.

The role requires deep expertise in backend systems and databases, strong cloud experience, and collaborative leadership. Join a company rewriting credit with transparent, affordable terms.