Manager, Software Engineering (Onfra Engineering)

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Requirements:

• 7+ years of software development experience.
• 3+ years of technical and organizational leadership, preferably in infrastructure or SRE.
• Experience in a SaaS company delivering services 24/7.
• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes, OpenShift, or container orchestration technologies.
• Experience with cloud-native traffic management and security concepts at scale.
• Experience in designing cloud-native CD systems with ArgoCD, Flux, or similar technologies.
• Practical coding experience in Python, Go, C++, or JVM-based languages.
• Familiarity with AWS or other cloud providers.
• Familiarity with Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) is a plus.
• Experience collaborating with teams across time zones.

Responsibilities:

• Lead a European-based team of infrastructure engineers, guiding their technical decisions and projects.
• Shape Affirm’s strategy for delivering and managing foundational computing infrastructure.
• Collaborate with peers and stakeholders across platform and product engineering organizations.
• Design and implement frameworks, services, and tools for scaling new Affirm products.
• Guide and mentor junior and senior engineers, promoting best practices in design, coding, and testing.
• Participate in an on-call rotation as required.