Staff Backend CI/CD & Build Systems Engineer

Affirm, Inc.; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); Remote; 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 seeking a CI Engineer to enhance its developer productivity through improved integration and build systems. This role allows for remote work across the U.S., focusing on building scalable, reliable systems.

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in CI engineering, cloud-native environments, and a passion for solving complex challenges. Affirm offers a comprehensive benefits package, including full medical coverage and a stock purchase plan.

Qualifications

• Proven experience driving and leading engineering efforts in CI, build systems, or developer productivity domains.
• Strong background in managing build systems and frameworks for large monorepos.
• Active contributor to open source projects or previous experience with large-scale software development.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Continuous Integration (CI)

Cloud-native environments

Programming languages (Python, Kotlin, Java)

Build systems (GitHub, Buildkite, Bazel)

Problem-solving skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Bazel

Job description

Affirm is seeking a CI Engineer to enhance its developer productivity through improved integration and build systems. This role allows for remote work across the U.S., focusing on building scalable, reliable systems.

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in CI engineering, cloud-native environments, and a passion for solving complex challenges. Affirm offers a comprehensive benefits package, including full medical coverage and a stock purchase plan.