Senior Data Lakehouse Engineer - Remote

Affirm; Seattle (WA); À distance; USD 195 000 - 255 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Health coverage

Spending stipends

Flexible time off

ESPP

Résumé du poste

Affirm is a remote-first company building data infrastructure to support money and loan movement workloads. The Data and Storage Services team owns OLTP/OLAP data and analytics platforms, delivering reliable, scalable data infrastructure for affirmers and ML/Product teams.

You’ll lead a backend-focused team, owning quarterly goals, collaborating across product, design, analytics, and engineering, and driving high-impact features with strong design and on-call reliability practices.

Qualifications

• 4+ years designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale (Python or Kotlin).
• Experience building highly available distributed systems with AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes.
• Experience scaling tech like Iceberg, Flink, Airflow, Spark, Kafka, Snowflake, Terraform.
• Ability to define a technical plan for delivering a significant feature with simple, extensible design.
• Proven track record of making large codebase changes safely and with ownership.
• Demonstrated drive for growth, seeking feedback and improving skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication for global collaboration.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a related field or practical experience.

Responsabilités

• Own quarterly goals for your team and lead engineers through ambiguity to delivery.
• Collaborate with product, design and analytics to align on constraints and trade-offs.
• Proactively identify and solve project, process, or tech issues.
• Monitor and support operations and on-call reliability of team artifacts.
• Set and improve code review and design standards, evangelizing them beyond the team.
• Mentor teammates, provide feedback, and lead by example.

Connaissances

Python

Kotlin

Distributed systems

AWS

MySQL

Kubernetes

Formation

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Outils

Iceberg

Flink

Airflow

Spark

Kafka

Snowflake

Terraform

Description du poste

Affirm is a remote-first company building data infrastructure to support money and loan movement workloads. The Data and Storage Services team owns OLTP/OLAP data and analytics platforms, delivering reliable, scalable data infrastructure for affirmers and ML/Product teams.

You’ll lead a backend-focused team, owning quarterly goals, collaborating across product, design, analytics, and engineering, and driving high-impact features with strong design and on-call reliability practices.