Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Online Storage)

Affirm; United States; Remoto; USD 204.000 - 264.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Health care coverage

Flexible Spending Wallets

Time off

Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)

Descrizione del lavoro

Affirm, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to drive the technical roadmap for Databases (Relational and KeyValue). You’ll shape scalable datastore platforms, across MySQL, Redis, and distributed SQL, with multi-region, high-availability, and performance-focused design.

You will own operations, build self-service tooling for hundreds of databases, and partner with product and SRE to ensure reliability and efficiency. Remote-friendly, with competitive pay and benefits.

Competenze

• 8+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin.
• An extensive track record of developing highly available distributed systems using AWS, MySQL, Spark and Kubernetes.
• 5+ years of hands-on Database Expertise with relational/distributed SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL, TiDB/Vitess); including schema design, query optimization, scaling, sharding and performance tuning; cloud deployment experience; benchmarking/load testing/capacity planning; familiarity with connection poolers/proxies (ProxySQL, RDS Proxy, PgBouncer).
• Experience delivering major features or deprecations via technical plans; high-quality, maintainable code.
• Strong communication skills for collaboration with global teams.
• Equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field.

Mansioni

• Set technical strategy for the team on a year-long horizon and link it to business-impacting projects.
• Collaborate with product, infrastructure, and SRE teams.
• Design and build components of a scalable datastore platform with multi-region, horizontally scalable, globally available characteristics.
• Develop control planes for management and self-service of hundreds of databases at scale including migrations, disaster recovery, sharding and performance tuning.
• Collaborate across teams in product development to align on sustainability, risks and trade-offs.
• Advocate for effective technical solutions and operational processes.
• Own team operations and availability with monitoring, runbooks, policies, testing and on-call readiness.
• Foster code quality and design standards and share them across teams.

Conoscenze

Backend design

Distributed systems

Python

Kotlin

AWS

MySQL

Spark

Kubernetes

Formazione

Bachelor’s degree in a related field

Strumenti

ProxySQL

RDS Proxy

PgBouncer

Descrizione del lavoro

Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest.

The Data and Storage Services team is responsible for Affirms data infrastructure across OLTP and OLAP systems, spanning critical online checkout databases, batch orchestration, streaming infrastructure, event-driven frameworks, BI, analytics tooling, large-scale data platforms, and agentic data tools such as semantic layers and internal platform data applications. Our mission is to provide trustworthy, intuitive, and cost-efficient solutions for Affirms to secure, store, analyze, and transform data at exceptional scale.

The Online Storage team provides a set of managed databases as a platform, used to persist data for all Affirms services. Our platform enables self-service access to OLTP storage systems, including Relational DB(MySQL), DynamoDB, Distributed SQL, Cache(Redis). As a team, we are responsible for various data and access patterns, including but not limited to mission-critical financial transactional data, data science models, and any new persistence use case. These responsibilities require us to learn and gain deep expertise in various database systems.

We are looking for a highly skilled and detail-oriented Staff Software Engineer who can drive the technical roadmap for our Databases (Relational and KeyValue) identifying opportunities to improve how we build, productize, operate and improve this mission-critical infrastructure to unlock substantial value within our business. You’ll have the opportunity to directly influence your team’s roadmap in close collaboration with your peers, share your knowledge and expertise with others and learn from some of the best on our shared mission to deliver honest financial products that improve lives.

What You’ll Do

As an integral member of the Online Storage team,

• You will be responsible for setting technical strategy for your team on a year-long time scale, and help your team tie it together with critical, business-impacting projects.

• You will work closely with and contribute to other teams - including product, infrastructure, and site reliability engineering (SRE).

• You will design and build components of a scalable datastore platform, contributing to the overall Affirms goals, and leveraging experience in creating multi-region, horizontally scalable, globally available, and high-performance datastore solutions.

• You will develop control planes for management, self service of hundreds of databases at scale automating schema/data migrations, disaster recovery, sharding and performance tuning.

• You will collaborate across teams in the product development lifecycle, focusing on database solutions, by collaborating with product management, design & analytics to ensure technical sustainability, risks and trade-offs are well understood and managed.

• You will act as a force-multiplier for your team through your definition and advocacy of technical solutions and operational processes.

• You take ownership of your team’s operations and availability by ensuring you have the right monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing and alerting in place to support “keep the lights on” & on-call efforts.

• You will foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting 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 8+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin.

• You have an extensive track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL, Spark and Kubernetes.

• You have 5+ years of hands-on Database Expertise, leveraging your deep knowledge of Relational and/or Distributed SQL such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, TiDB/Vitess to optimize database performance, ensuring data integrity, and implementing efficient data access patterns. Should possess deep understanding of Database fundamentals including schema design, query optimization, scaling, partitioning, sharding and performance tuning in multiple functional environments. Strong background and expertise in building and operating databases in cloud environments. Expertise in database benchmarking, load testing, and capacity planning. Familiarity with connection poolers and proxies such as ProxySQL, RDS Proxy, Pg Bouncer, etc.

• You have experience delivering major features, system components or deprecating existing functionality in a system through the definition of a technical and execution plan. You write high quality code that is easily understood and used by others.

• You thrive in ambiguity, and are comfortable moving from low level language idioms all the way to the architecture of large systems to understand how they work.

• Your growth and impact trajectory demonstrates that you have mastered gathering and iterating on feedback from your engineering and cross-functional peers.

• 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 - P

Equity Grade - 13

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.

USA base pay range (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT) per year: $230,000 - $290,000
USA base pay range (all other U.S. states) per year: $204,000 - $264,000

#LI-Remote

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. Affirmsers 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.

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.