Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Workload Safety)
Affirm · Remote Canada · Remote US
- Level
- Senior
- Type
- full-time
- Mode
- Remote-friendly
- Posted
- 2026-10-21
- 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. Affirm's engineering team is building a large-scale, highly available, and global infrastructure that is shared across multiple financial products. Ensuring that our infrastructure is accessible to all engineers is critical to the success of the business. We pride ourselves on our culture across engineering of engaging in thorough technical design review, operational excellence, and capable incident response and analysis. Affirm runs its workloads on more than 85 Amazon EKS clusters, and the number is growing.…
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