Senior Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Compute Platform)
Core
Architect and evolve a large-scale, highly-available EKS Kubernetes platform to provide secure, reliable, and scalable infrastructure for Affirm's financial products.
Role type
Senior Staff Software Engineer (Backend Infrastructure)
Builds
Standardized, automated, and self-healing EKS clusters and shared components for thousands of workloads.
Domain
Cloud Infrastructure / Kubernetes / Financial Services
Deliverable
infrastructure
Required skills
EKS and Kubernetes internals, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), Go or Python, Cloud-native architecture (AWS), Observability, Policy enforcement (OPA/Gatekeeper)
Preferred skills
Spacelift, ArgoCD, Karpenter, GitOps
Technologies
EKS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Spacelift, Karpenter, CoreDNS, VPC CNI, Go, Python, AWS
Responsibilities
Lead technical direction for cluster provisioning, upgrades, and teardown; Own reliability of core shared components; Define and enforce workload safety standards; Drive cost and capacity strategy; Mentor engineers; Participate in on-call rotation.
Seniority
Senior Staff, hands-on IC with strategic leadership