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Manager, Software Engineering (Code to Environments)

3 weeks, 3 days ago
United States
Full-time
Lead
DevOps Engineer
Software Development
AWS Buildkite CI/CD Docker GitHub Actions Helm Jenkins Kotlin Kubernetes Python Terraform
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Affirm

Affirm

Affirm offers a transparent buy now, pay later service founded in 2012 by Max Levchin. No late fees or surprises, just a responsible way to pay over time for your favorite brands.

Diversified Financial Services
1K-5K
Founded 2012
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Description

  • Define and drive the vision for Developer Environments and inner-loop developer productivity at Affirm.
  • Set the technical strategy for the team on a year-long horizon and connect it to business-impacting work.
  • Lead, mentor, and grow a team of engineers while fostering ownership, collaboration, and technical excellence.
  • Partner with engineering leadership and stakeholders to align priorities with product, platform, and reliability goals.
  • Own the design, scalability, reliability, and usability of ephemeral developer environment systems used in development and CI.
  • Improve environment provisioning, stability, and teardown workflows to increase developer velocity and reliability.
  • Drive measurable improvements in developer experience, including startup time, success rate, performance, debuggability, and resource utilization.
  • Implement monitoring, alerting, incident response processes, and operational playbooks to reduce downtime and developer impact.
  • Collaborate with CI/CD and Test Platform partners to integrate environments cleanly with build and test workflows.
  • Identify developer pain points and lead tooling, automation, and self-service initiatives to improve productivity.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years of engineering management experience or equivalent people leadership experience.
  • Proven experience leading engineering teams in infrastructure, platform engineering, developer productivity, or adjacent domains.
  • Strong technical background in backend or infrastructure systems, with Python or Kotlin preferred but not required.
  • Experience building and operating cloud-native systems with AWS and Kubernetes.
  • Experience with infrastructure-as-code practices.
  • Hands-on familiarity with containerized environments such as Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Experience with CI/CD systems such as Buildkite, Jenkins, or GitHub Actions.
  • Track record of operating services with a high reliability bar, including monitoring, on-call, incident response, postmortems, and continuous hardening.
  • Strong communication and leadership skills with experience mentoring and growing high-performing teams.
  • Comfort balancing trade-offs between build vs. buy, speed vs. safety, and developer experience vs. operational constraints.
  • Equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field is required.
  • Experience building or managing ephemeral or remote development environments is preferred.
  • Experience optimizing orchestration, startup times, and developer feedback loops is preferred.
  • Background in test automation, build engineering, or developer tooling is preferred.
  • Familiarity with Terraform, Helm, or similar infrastructure tooling is preferred.

Benefits

  • Remote-first work with flexibility to work almost anywhere within the country of employment.
  • 100% subsidized medical coverage for you and your dependents.
  • Dental and vision coverage for you and your dependents.
  • Monthly stipends for health, wellness, and tech spending.
  • Flexible Spending Wallets for technology, food, lifestyle needs, and family-forming expenses.
  • Competitive vacation and holiday schedules.
  • Employee stock purchase plan with shares available at a discount.
  • Competitive base salary range of $200,000–$250,000 for most U.S. states and $225,000–$275,000 for CA, WA, NY, NJ, and CT.

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