Senior Manager, Software Engineering (Data & Storage Services)

2 months, 2 weeks ago
Full-time
Lead
DevOps and Infrastructure
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

  • Lead engineers and managers while fostering a high-performance, ownership-driven, and inclusive team culture.
  • Oversee storage services and tools, including relational and key-value storage infrastructure 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 engineering and with internal and external partners to align execution and outcomes.
  • Mentor, recruit, and create growth opportunities for team members while representing Affirm’s hiring brand.
  • Lead technical decisions, projects, and roadmaps for the Online Storage team.
  • Develop multi-year roadmaps with tech leads for frameworks, services, and tools supporting new products and business needs.
  • Guide 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.
  • Deep knowledge of 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 or Memcached.
  • Experience with storage and database systems such as DynamoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, TiDB, Cockroach, or 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.

Benefits

  • Remote-first work environment with the flexibility to work almost anywhere within the country of employment.
  • Competitive base salary of $232,000-$282,000 for most U.S. states or $260,000-$310,000 for CA, WA, NY, NJ, and CT.
  • Equity rewards and an employee stock purchase plan at a discount.
  • Monthly stipends for health, wellness, and tech spending.
  • 100% subsidized medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents.
  • Generous flexible spending wallets for technology, food, lifestyle needs, and family-forming expenses.
  • Competitive vacation and holiday schedules.
  • Reasonable accommodations available during the hiring process for candidates who need individualized support.

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