Senior Software Engineer - SRE, Backend (Reliability Engineering)

Affirm; Palo Alto (CA); Remote; USD 190,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their Site Reliability Engineering team. This role focuses on enhancing application performance, guiding the development of service-level objectives, and driving incident management processes. You will collaborate closely with product management and design teams to deliver impactful solutions while fostering a culture of quality within the engineering organization. If you have a passion for building reliable systems and a strong background in backend development, this is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact in a forward-thinking company that values transparency and employee well-being.

Benefits

100% subsidized medical coverage

Dental and vision coverage

Flexible Spending Wallets

Competitive vacation and holiday schedules

Employee stock purchase plan

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in backend systems development.
• Experience in Site Reliability or Production Engineering.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver quarterly goals for your team.
• Support operations and availability of team artifacts.
• Foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team.

Skills

Python

Kotlin

AWS

MySQL

Kubernetes

Site Reliability Engineering

Distributed Systems

Automation

Observability

Configuration Management

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

MySQL

Job description

Senior Software Engineer - SRE, Backend (Reliability Engineering)

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Responsibilities

Site Reliability Engineering at Affirm is a small, yet crucial, team that helps our Engineering partners to “Operate What They Own” with excellence to protect their customers’ experience. SRE accomplishes this through defining frameworks and best practices for operating applications, building tooling, and providing training and consulting. Some of the many SRE responsibilities are:

• Providing data and visibility to teams and leadership on application performance
• Guiding the development of SLOs
• Driving the Incident Management and Analysis process
• Steering the implementation of Change Management and Deployment practices
• Engaging in service and architectural conversations
• Recommending observability and alerting configurations
  
  

The SRE team benefits from experience across many domains including:

• infrastructure, platform, and distributed systems
• capacity management, load and chaos testing
• automation, observability, and configuration management
• development and product experience
  
  

The SRE team is seeking motivated software engineers with the experience to build and expand reliability and resilience practices throughout Affirms Engineering organization and beyond.

What You'll Do

• You will be responsible for owning and delivering quarterly goals for your team, leading engineers on your team through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems, and ensuring that everyone is supported throughout delivery.
• You will support your peers and stakeholders in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics by participating in ideation, articulating technical constraints, and partnering on decisions that properly consider risks and trade-offs.
• You will proactively identify project, process, technology or business issues, advocate for them, and lead in solving them.
• You will support the operations and availability of your team’s artifacts by creating and monitoring metrics, escalating when needed, and supporting “keep the lights on” & on-call efforts.
• You will foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting or improving code review and design standards for your team, and advocating for them beyond your team through your writing and tech talks.
• You will help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example.
  
  

What We Look For

• You have 4+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin.
• You have a track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes.
• You have 4+ years working in a Site Reliability or Production Engineering team
• You demonstrate curiosity with empathy, and strong opinions loosely held
• You have experience defining a technical plan for the delivery of a significant feature or system component with an elegant, simple and extensible design. You write high quality code that is easily understood and used by others.
• You are proficient at making significant changes in a large code base, and have developed a suite of tools and practices that enable you and your team to do so safely.
• Your experience demonstrates that you take ownership of your growth, proactively seeking feedback from your team, your manager, and your stakeholders.
• You have strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team.
• This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
  
  

Base Pay Grade- N

Equity Grade- 8

Employees new to Affirm typically come in at the start of the pay range. Affirm focuses on providing a simple and transparent pay structure which is based on a variety of factors, including location, experience and job-related skills.

Base pay is part of a total compensation package that may include equity rewards, monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending, and benefits (including 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents.)

USA base pay range (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT) per year: $190,000 - $240,000

USA base pay range (all other U.S. states) per year: $169,000 - $219,000

Affirm is proud to be a remote-first company! The majority of our roles are remote and you can work almost anywhere within the country of employment. Affirmers in proximal roles have the flexibility to work remotely, but will occasionally be required to work out of their assigned Affirm office. A limited number of roles remain office-based due to the nature of their job responsibilities.

Benefits

We’re extremely proud to offer competitive benefits that are anchored to our core value of people come first. Some key highlights of our benefits package include:

• Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents
• Flexible Spending Wallets - generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses
• Time off - competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge
• ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount
  
  

We believe It’s On Us to provide an inclusive interview experience for all, including people with disabilities. We are happy to provide reasonable accommodations to candidates in need of individualized support during the hiring process.

[For U.S. positions that could be performed in Los Angeles or San Francisco] Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, Affirm will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

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