Senior Staff Software Engineer (Online Infrastructure)

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Requirements:

• 10+ years of software development experience.
• Proficient in Kubernetes, OpenShift, or other container orchestration technologies.
• Experience with cloud-native traffic management, networking, and security concepts (Istio, Cilium, eBPF).
• Experience in designing cloud-native CD systems with ArgoCD, Flux, or similar technologies.
• Strong coding and debugging experience with Python, Go, C++, or JVM-based languages.
• Experience with AWS, Microsoft Azure, GCP, or other cloud providers.
• Familiarity with Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) is a plus.
• Enthusiastic vision for leading technical teams and mentoring.
• Preference for leveraging and contributing to Open Source solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Lead technical decisions, projects, and roadmaps within the Online Infrastructure team.
• Shape and own Affirm’s strategy for managing and serving computing workloads.
• Collaborate with peers, leadership, and stakeholders across platform and product engineering.
• Design and implement frameworks, services, and tools for new products and business needs.
• Guide and mentor junior and senior engineers on design, coding, and best practices.