Staff Backend Engineer, Scalable Databases & Data Platforms

Affirm; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 204,000 - 290,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care coverage

Flexible Spending Wallets

Time off

ESPP

Job summary

Affirm is building a remote-first team to own and evolve our Databases platform, focusing on Relational and Distributed SQL like MySQL and Vitess. You will drive architecture, partner with cross-functional teams, and mentor engineers as you scale critical data infrastructure.

Join a company redefining consumer credit with transparent pay-over-time options, competitive benefits, and a culture that values ownership, quality, and impact.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of backend design and development at scale.
• Experience with AWS, MySQL, Spark, Kubernetes.
• 5+ years database expertise in Relational/Distributed SQL.
• Strong architecture and system design skills.

Responsibilities

• Set technical strategy for team on a year-long horizon.
• Collaborate with product, infrastructure, and SRE teams.
• Design and build scalable datastore components for multi-region, high-performance databases.
• Lead operations, monitoring, and on-call readiness for reliability.

Skills

Python

Kotlin

Distributed systems

AWS

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

Spark

Data modeling

Code quality

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Tools

ProxySQL

RDS Proxy

Vitess

Terraform

Job description

Affirm is building a remote-first team to own and evolve our Databases platform, focusing on Relational and Distributed SQL like MySQL and Vitess. You will drive architecture, partner with cross-functional teams, and mentor engineers as you scale critical data infrastructure.

Join a company redefining consumer credit with transparent pay-over-time options, competitive benefits, and a culture that values ownership, quality, and impact.