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

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Founded 2012

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Senior Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Data and Storage Services)

4 days, 3 hours ago

United States

Full-time

Lead

Software Engineer

Software Development

Apache Airflow Apache Spark AWS CI/CD dbt Go Kotlin Python Snowflake SQL Terraform

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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

Architect and evolve Affirm's lakehouse analytics platform with a focus on Snowflake, Apache Iceberg, and Spark.
Design and implement role-based access control and dynamic data masking policies in Snowflake.
Lead analytics engineering practices for data modeling, dbt transformation pipelines, and data quality frameworks.
Drive data governance and privacy engineering initiatives, including cataloging, lineage, classification, and policy enforcement.
Optimize analytical compute and storage costs through warehouse tuning, query optimization, and data lifecycle management.
Collaborate with product engineering, data science, business intelligence, infrastructure, and SRE teams on data needs and platform design.
Establish best practices for lakehouse operations, including schema evolution, table maintenance, partitioning, and observability.
Mentor engineers across the data organization and promote technical excellence.
Participate in on-call rotation and help resolve production issues.
Stay current with trends in analytical data platforms, governance, privacy, and lakehouse technologies.

Requirements

10+ years of experience in software engineering or data engineering.
6+ years of hands-on experience with Snowflake or comparable analytical data warehouses.
Deep understanding of Snowflake internals, including RBAC design, data masking, query profiling, micro-partitioning, clustering, materialized views, and cost attribution.
Strong experience with Apache Iceberg, Spark, and cloud-native data lake architectures on AWS, including S3 and EKS.
Experience with dbt or equivalent transformation frameworks, including data modeling, testing, and CI/CD for data pipelines.
Proficiency in Python and SQL.
Experience with Kotlin or Go is a plus.
Familiarity with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform.
Demonstrated leadership, mentorship, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Equivalent practical experience or a bachelor’s degree in a related field is required.

Benefits

Base pay range of $260,000 to $310,000 for CA, WA, NY, NJ, and CT roles, or $232,000 to $282,000 for all other U.S. states.
Equity rewards as part of total compensation.
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.
Remote-first work environment with flexibility to work from almost anywhere in the country of employment.
Competitive vacation and holiday schedules.
Employee stock purchase plan with shares available at a discount.

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