Manager, Software Engineering (Reliability Platform)

1 hour, 2 minutes ago
Full-time
Lead
Software Development
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

Description

  • Build and lead a high-performing product engineering team with a culture of innovation, accountability, reliability, and execution.
  • Leverage AI-assisted engineering workflows to accelerate platform development, operational automation, and engineering productivity.
  • Translate ambiguous operational and organizational challenges into clear technical requirements, execution plans, and measurable outcomes.
  • Develop scalable reliability, risk management, and operational governance capabilities for Affirm’s production systems using observability tooling, automation, and AI.
  • Build foundational systems that help engineers understand service ownership, dependencies, and operational topology across Affirm’s infrastructure and applications.
  • Drive alignment across Platform Engineering, SRE, Infrastructure, and product engineering teams on requirements, investment priorities, and long-term roadmap outcomes.
  • Lead delivery of critical cross-functional reliability initiatives with high organizational visibility.
  • Partner closely with Infrastructure and Product Engineering teams to define reliability standards and build scalable operational tooling.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience in backend or full stack engineering.
  • 2+ years of engineering leadership experience.
  • Experience working within or alongside Production Engineering or Site Reliability Engineering teams.
  • Expertise with observability tools and with building software or managing programs that drive engineering culture and reliability practices.
  • Strong operational judgment and ability to drive clarity, prioritization, and execution in ambiguous problem spaces.
  • Experience building internal platforms, developer tooling, reliability products, or operational automation systems at scale.
  • Demonstrated ability to balance rapid iteration and experimentation with operational rigor and long-term maintainability.
  • Strong programming background in Python, Kotlin, Java, or similar languages.
  • Strong communication and organizational leadership skills, including aligning stakeholders, driving execution, and influencing engineering practices across teams.
  • Equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field is required.

Benefits

  • Remote-first work environment with flexibility to work almost anywhere within the country of employment.
  • Competitive base salary of $230,000 - $290,000 in CA, WA, NY, NJ, and CT, or $204,000 - $264,000 in other U.S. states.
  • Equity rewards, including Equity Grade 13.
  • Monthly stipends for health, wellness, and tech spending.
  • 100% subsidized medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents.
  • Flexible Spending Wallets for technology, food, lifestyle needs, and family-forming expenses.
  • Competitive vacation and holiday schedules.
  • Employee stock purchase plan with discounted shares.

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