Senior Manager, Software Engineering (Data & Storage Services)

2 hours, 26 minutes ago
Full-time
Lead
DevOps and Infrastructure
Affirm

Affirm

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Diversified Financial Services
1K-5K
Founded 2012

Description

  • Lead a team of engineers and managers with empathy while fostering a high-performance, ownership-driven, and inclusive culture.
  • Oversee storage services teams managing relational and key-value storage infrastructure and tools at scale.
  • Drive business and engineering metrics with a focus on reliability, security, and productivity.
  • Collaborate with tech leads, program managers, and engineering managers on security, architecture, planning, and delivery.
  • Work across the engineering organization and with internal and external partners to support platform goals.
  • Provide leadership, mentorship, recruiting support, and growth opportunities for team members.
  • 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 that support new products and business needs.
  • Guide and support the professional growth of junior and senior engineers on the team.

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.
  • Depth in 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.
  • Experience with technologies such as Redis or Memcached, DynamoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, TiDB, Cockroach, and Vitess.
  • Experience with multi-region topologies and cross-region replication strategies.
  • Strong interpersonal, 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.
  • Solid leadership and interpersonal skills.

Benefits

  • Remote-first work environment with the ability to work almost anywhere within the country of employment.
  • Base salary range of $260,000 - $310,000 for CA, WA, NY, NJ, and CT, or $232,000 - $282,000 for all other U.S. states.
  • Equity rewards as part of the total compensation package.
  • Monthly stipends for health, wellness, and tech spending.
  • 100% subsidized medical coverage for you and your dependents.
  • 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 Affirm shares.

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