Staff Backend Engineer, Observability Lead - Remote

Affirm, Inc.; San Diego (CA); Remote; USD 230.000 - 290.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Health coverage

Tech stipend

Flexible time off

ESPP

Zusammenfassung

AFFIRM is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead Observability, balancing reliability and cost while hands-on coding. You’ll mentor a team of engineers, define the roadmap, and partner with product and infrastructure to improve system visibility and incident response.

You’ll design telemetry architectures, drive cross-team initiatives, and advocate for scalable, instrumented platforms that support AI-assisted development and fast problem diagnosis.

Qualifikationen

• 8+ years designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale.
• Experience with distributed systems and high-volume telemetry.
• Strong communication and collaboration with cross-functional teams.
• Track record of setting technical strategy and mentoring engineers.

Aufgaben

• Own architecture of telemetry pipeline for 200+ TB/day.
• Design log sampling to reduce volume and cost.
• Shape observability in agentic development and AI coding agents.

Kenntnisse

Backend design

Distributed systems

Mentoring

Cross-functional leadership

Communication

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

AWS

MySQL

Flink

Kubernetes

OpenTelemetry

Kafka

Terraform

Jobbeschreibung

AFFIRM is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead Observability, balancing reliability and cost while hands-on coding. You’ll mentor a team of engineers, define the roadmap, and partner with product and infrastructure to improve system visibility and incident response.

You’ll design telemetry architectures, drive cross-team initiatives, and advocate for scalable, instrumented platforms that support AI-assisted development and fast problem diagnosis.