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Senior Manager, Software Engineering (Data & Storage Services)

1 month, 1 week ago
Canada
Full-time
Executive
Database Administrator
DevOps and Infrastructure
CockroachDB DynamoDB Memcached MySQL PostgreSQL Redis
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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

  • Lead engineers and managers with empathy while building a high-performance, ownership-driven, and inclusive team culture.
  • Oversee storage services teams responsible for relational and key-value infrastructure at scale.
  • Drive business and engineering metrics with a focus on reliability, security, and productivity.
  • Partner with tech leads, program managers, and engineering managers on security, architecture, planning, and delivery across multiple projects.
  • Work across the engineering organization and with internal and external partners to align on technical direction.
  • Mentor engineers, support career growth, recruit talent, and represent Affirm’s hiring brand.
  • Lead technical decisions, projects, and roadmaps for the Online Storage team.
  • Collaborate with peers, leadership, and stakeholders across platform engineering and product engineering organizations.
  • Develop a multi-year roadmap for frameworks, services, and tools to support new products and business needs.
  • Guide and support junior and senior engineers in their professional development.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience managing multiple diverse and inclusive teams and delivering large cross-functional technical programs.
  • Proven track record in stakeholder management, ownership, and successful delivery.
  • Strong leadership and interpersonal skills.
  • Deep experience with cache architecture and lifecycle management, including tiered cache design, eviction and TTL policies, warm-up/priming strategies, consistency models, backpressure, and thundering-herd protection.
  • Experience operating low-latency, high-throughput storage and caching platforms in production, such as Redis, Memcached, DynamoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, TiDB, Cockroach, or Vitess.
  • Experience with multi-region topologies and cross-region replication strategies.
  • Capability in mentorship, cross-functional project execution, and individual contribution.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills with a growth mindset.
  • Experience in the data infrastructure domain and interest in leading technical teams and contributing to open source solutions.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

Benefits

  • CAN base pay range of $206,000 to $256,000 per year.
  • Potential equity rewards as part of the total compensation package.
  • Monthly stipends for health, wellness, and tech spending.
  • 100% subsidized medical coverage for employees and dependents.
  • Dental and vision coverage for employees and dependents.
  • Remote-first work environment with the flexibility to work almost anywhere within the country of employment.
  • Flexible Spending Wallets for technology, food, lifestyle needs, and family-forming expenses.
  • Competitive vacation and holiday schedules to rest and recharge.
  • Employee stock purchase plan allowing employees to buy Affirm shares at a discount.

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