Senior Software Engineer, backend (Online Storage)
Affirm · Remote Canada · Remote US
- Level
- Senior
- Type
- full-time
- Mode
- Remote-friendly
- Posted
- 2026-09-30
- Team
- Infrastructure Platform Eng
Role description
At Affirm, we exist for the moments that matter—giving people a clear, predictable way to pay over time, with no hidden fees, no surprises, and no tradeoffs on what matters most. The Data and Storage Services team is responsible for Affirm's data infrastructure across OLTP and OLAP systems, spanning critical online checkout databases, batch orchestration, streaming infrastructure, event-driven frameworks, BI, analytics tooling, large-scale data platforms, and agentic data tools such as semantic layers and internal platform data applications. Our mission is to provide trustworthy, intuitive, and cost-efficient solutions for Affirmers to secure, store, analyze, and transform data at exceptional scale.…
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