Senior Staff Software Engineer (Reliability)

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Requirements:

• 10+ years of software development experience, including Python, Kotlin, Rust, Java, C++, or GoLang.
• 5+ years in at least two SRE organizational structures.
• 5+ years of hands-on infrastructure experience and scaling distributed systems.
• 5+ years of technical leadership in SWE and Reliability teams.
• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes and AWS in production.
• Ability to communicate decisions and practices effectively.
• Experience in developing effective SLIs and SLOs.
• Deep knowledge of incident management and post-incident review.

Responsibilities:

• Create and champion a long-term technical roadmap for reliability practices across Affirm.
• Promote a culture of ownership, curiosity, and data-driven decision-making.
• Coach team members on resilient architecture, technical design, and code reviews.
• Influence Infrastructure teams to improve customer experience.
• Drive investigations of complex issues involving software and systems.
• Support product management to enhance development velocity and reliability.
• Foster a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement.
• Provide leadership in incident management and reliability principles.
• Focus on human interactions to enable quicker incident resolution.