Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Cost Engineering)
Affirm · Remote Canada
- Level
- Staff
- Type
- full-time
- Mode
- Remote-friendly
- Posted
- 2026-07-30
- 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. Engineering owns cost visibility and optimization across Affirm's cloud and AI infrastructure. We're the team that tells the business what it's spending, why it's changing, and what to do about it — from AWS resource waste and tagging strategy to the newer frontier of AI/LLM spend across the company's growing set of AI tools.…
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