Senior Data Platform Engineer - Lakehouse Infra (Remote)

Remote; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 195,000 - 255,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity rewards

Remote work

Healthcare subsidy

Job summary

Affirm is seeking a senior engineer for the Lakehouse Infra team to own backend systems at scale and drive reliable data infrastructure across OLTP/OLAP workloads. You will collaborate with product, design, and analytics to turn complex requirements into robust, observable platforms that support ML, product, and financial engineering goals.

You will lead by example, push for quality, and mentor teammates while delivering quarterly objectives.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale.

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver quarterly goals for your team, guiding engineers through ambiguity.
• Collaborate with product management, design & analytics across the lifecycle.
• Identify and lead solving project, process, or tech issues.
• Maintain team artifacts by monitoring metrics and supporting on-call efforts.
• Set and improve code review and design standards across the team.
• Mentor teammates and lead by example to develop talent.

Skills

Python

Kotlin

Backend design

Code quality

Ownership

Communication

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

AWS

MySQL

Kubernetes

Flink

Airflow

Spark

Kafka

Snowflake

Terraform

Iceberg

Job description

Affirm is seeking a senior engineer for the Lakehouse Infra team to own backend systems at scale and drive reliable data infrastructure across OLTP/OLAP workloads. You will collaborate with product, design, and analytics to turn complex requirements into robust, observable platforms that support ML, product, and financial engineering goals.

You will lead by example, push for quality, and mentor teammates while delivering quarterly objectives.