- Company: Affirm
- Location: Remote Canada
- Job type: Full-time
- Salary: CAD $181,000 – $241,000 per year
About the role
Affirm is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to lead the Observability team. You will own the architecture of the telemetry pipeline, which processes over 200 TB of data daily. This role involves hands-on engineering, strategic planning, and mentoring a team of six engineers. The position is remote-first and open to candidates residing in specific Canadian provinces.
Responsibilities
- Own the architecture of Affirm’s telemetry pipeline, balancing reliability, performance, and cost.
- Design log sampling strategies to reduce volume and cost while maintaining signal quality.
- Integrate observability practices into agentic development and code review processes.
- Set technical strategy for the team and align it with business-impacting projects.
- Collaborate with product management, design, and analytics to manage technical risks.
- Act as a force-multiplier by defining technical solutions and operational processes.
- Ensure team operations, monitoring, and on-call support are robust and effective.
- Foster a culture of quality through code review standards and technical advocacy.
- Mentor engineers by providing feedback, guidance, and leading by example.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience designing and launching backend systems at scale using Python or Kotlin.
- Extensive track record with highly available distributed systems using AWS, MySQL, Flink, and Kubernetes.
- Experience building or operating high-volume telemetry systems using OpenTelemetry, Kafka, and Terraform.
- Strong understanding of modern observability practices, including structured events, sampling, and SLOs.
- Proven ability to drive adoption of platform standards across multiple engineering teams.
- Experience delivering major features or deprecating functionality through clear technical plans.
- Ability to thrive in ambiguity and understand systems from low-level idioms to large-scale architecture.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills for effective global collaboration.
Pay and benefits
- Base pay range: CAD $181,000 – $241,000 per year.
- 100% subsidized medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents.
- Monthly stipends for health, wellness, and tech spending.
- Eligibility for equity rewards from Affirm Holdings, Inc.
- Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) to buy Affirm stock at a discount.
- Flexible time off and generous holiday calendars.
How to apply
Apply directly on Affirm’s own careers website. Omadaily never charges job seekers.
