- Company: Affirm
- Location: Remote Canada
- Job type: Full-time
- Salary: CAD $209,000 – $269,000 per year
About the role
Affirm is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to join the Compute Platform team. You will help build and maintain the large-scale, highly available infrastructure that supports Affirm’s financial products. The team manages over 90 EKS clusters, focusing on standardization, automation, and reliability. This is a remote-first position based in Canada.
Responsibilities
- Architect and evolve the EKS platform, including cluster lifecycle and node management.
- Lead technical direction for cluster provisioning and upgrades using Terraform and Spacelift.
- Own the reliability of core shared components like Karpenter, CoreDNS, and VPC CNI.
- Define and enforce EKS workload safety standards for resource configuration and isolation.
- Build automation paths to move standards from manual onboarding to policy-enforced defaults.
- Establish observability, baseline audits, and reporting to measure risk mitigation.
- Partner with cluster-user teams to understand workload needs and shape the platform.
- Drive cost and capacity strategy across node scaling and EC2 instance selection.
- Mentor engineers and participate in the on-call rotation for production incidents.
Requirements
- 10+ years in software or infrastructure engineering with proven delivery of complex platform solutions.
- 6+ years hands-on operating production Kubernetes at scale, ideally EKS on AWS.
- Deep expertise in EKS and Kubernetes internals, including scheduling and autoscaling.
- Strong cloud-native architecture experience on AWS (EC2, VPC, IAM, EKS).
- Expert-level proficiency in Go or Python for building production-grade Kubernetes controllers.
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform) and GitOps-style deployment pipelines.
- Demonstrated leadership and cross-functional influence.
- This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
Pay and benefits
- Base pay range: CAD $209,000 – $269,000 per year.
- Equity rewards and an employee stock purchase plan (ESPP).
- 100% subsidized medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents.
- Monthly stipends for health, wellness, and tech spending.
- Flexible time off and generous holiday calendars.
How to apply
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