Staff Software Engineer, Backend – Observability

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🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $181k - $241k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🔙 Backend Engineer

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Affirm

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2012

💳 Fintech

👥 B2C

🛍️ eCommerce

💰 Post-IPO Equity on 2021-01

Fintech • B2C • eCommerce

Affirm is a financial technology company that offers a 'Buy Now, Pay Later' service, allowing consumers to make purchases and pay for them over time with flexible payment plans. Affirm eliminates hidden fees and compound interest, providing clear terms and conditions for its users. The company also offers the Affirm Card, a debit card that allows users to request to pay over time for larger purchases or pay in full for smaller ones. Affirm partners with various retailers across multiple categories, including electronics, apparel, and travel, providing customers with the convenience of paying over time at checkout both online and in physical stores. Affirm's services are integrated with Apple Pay, enabling customers to make payments seamlessly from their iPhone or iPad.

📋 Description

• Own the architecture of Affirm’s telemetry pipeline, balancing reliability, query performance and cost at 200+ TB/day • Design log-sampling strategies that reduce volume and cost while preserving incident-response signal • Shape observability practices for agentic development, AI coding agents and code review • Set technical strategy for the team on a year-long horizon • Drive cross-functional projects with product management, design and analytics • Define and advocate for technical solutions and operational processes • Own team operations and availability, including monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing, alerting and on-call efforts • Establish code-review and design standards • Foster team quality and ownership through writing and tech talks • Mentor and develop a team of six engineers • Define roadmap and partner with infrastructure and product teams

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale • Experience using languages such as Python or Kotlin • Extensive experience developing highly available distributed systems • Experience with AWS, MySQL, Flink and Kubernetes • Experience building or operating high-volume telemetry systems using OpenTelemetry, Kafka and Terraform • Knowledge of modern observability practices, including structured and wide events, sampling, cardinality management and SLOs • Experience driving adoption of platform standards across many engineering teams • Experience delivering major features or system components, or deprecating existing functionality, through technical and execution planning • Ability to write high-quality, maintainable code • Ability to work across low-level language idioms and large-system architecture • Strong verbal and written communication skills • Ability to collaborate with a global engineering team

🏖️ Benefits

• Monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending • 100% subsidized medical coverage for employees and dependents • Dental and vision coverage for employees and dependents • Flexible time off • Generous holiday calendars • Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) allowing employees to buy Affirm stock at a discount • Inclusive interview process and disability accommodations • In-person onboarding experience for all new hires

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