Manager, Software Engineering – Infra Foundations

🕒 August 21

🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $181k - $241k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

👮‍♀️ Software Engineering Manager

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Affirm

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

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

• Define and drive the vision and multi-quarter roadmap for Infra Foundations • Tie foundational investments to business-impacting outcomes while protecting time for technical-debt reduction and reliability work • Lead and mentor infrastructure engineers; own hiring, performance, and career growth • Partner with engineering leadership and stakeholders across infrastructure, platform, and security • Own reliability and safety for AWS account provisioning, bootstrapping, core networking, and human IAM access • Drive automation frameworks enabling infrastructure teams to provision, update, and tear down stacks and environments safely using GitHub and Spacelift • Steward AWS quota management and notifications, AMI patch management, and Ansible-based configuration management • Establish SLAs, quota alerting thresholds, incident response processes, and automated provisioning and teardown validation • Partner with Security to enforce least-privilege IAM and recommended permissions • Drive adoption of frameworks and best practices through self-service tooling, documentation, and knowledge sharing

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of software or infrastructure engineering experience • 2+ years of engineering management experience • Proven experience leading engineering teams in infrastructure, platform engineering, or adjacent domains • Strong technical background in cloud-native and infrastructure systems, preferably AWS • Ability to guide architecture and execution across AWS accounts, VPC networking, and IAM • Experience owning or leading Infrastructure-as-Code practices, such as Terraform or Spacelift • Experience with GitOps-style workflows • Experience building and operating infrastructure automation adopted by other teams • Experience operating highly reliable services, including monitoring, on-call, incident response, postmortems, and continuous hardening • Familiarity with least-privilege IAM models and access governance • Strong programming background in Python, Go, or Kotlin preferred • Strong communication and organizational leadership skills • Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience

🏖️ 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 Spending Wallets with stipends for Technology, Food, Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses • Competitive vacation and holiday schedules • Employee stock purchase plan enabling employees to buy Affirm shares at a discount • Reasonable accommodations during the hiring process