Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest. Affirm, Inc. proudly includes Affirm, PayBright, and Returnly. Affirm’s engineering team is building a large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant global infrastructure shared across multiple financial products, merchants and vendors.
We are looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with deep technical knowledge and who’s passionate about Linux, networking topics, and distributed architectures and has experience with scale to join our Site Reliability Engineering team. Our mandate is to enable Affirm's Application and Service to be highly resilient, scalable and fault tolerant, while maintaining our high SLA uptime expectations. You will excel if you have enthusiasm for digging deep, and a flare for sharp technical communication, prioritization, and organization. You will work directly with our Infrastructure and Development teams to build our next generation “always up” cloud-based platform.
What you'll do
- Own end to end availability, reliability and performance of the mission critical services.
- Troubleshoot various issues around reliability, resiliency, scalability and availability.
- Define and measure SLI, SLA and SLO.
- Augment instrumentation to build a cohesive dependency mapping with special attention to points of failure.
- Build command and control automations to quickly fail away to reduce TTR and reduce manual work/eliminate Toil.
- Assist with oncall and triage rotation.
What we look for
- Linux, Networking and AWS experience.
- Experience with containerization and container platforms. (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
- Familiarity with Elasticsearch, Kibana/Grafana, Logstash, Kafka and ways to scale these systems.
- Experience with automation systems (ansible, puppet) is a plus, Saltstack preferred.
- Comfort with open source systems a plus.
- Software development experience in Python/Go is a plus.
- Experience with high performance networking (Quic, network layer optimization) or Real Time transaction. protocols/methods (HTTP2, Server Sent Events, MQTT, WebSockets).
- Recommends or helps architect an entire system. Acts as an expert in understanding and performing TCP dumps, snoop, and other network sniffers. Understands and applies knowledge of most protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP, UDP, etc.).
Compensation & Benefits
We offer a competitive package, with some highlights listed below. However, the given figures are not guaranteed compensation ranges; rather, they are unbinding, approximate indications of what the salary may be for your awareness. The actual salary may be less than the lower range or greater than the upper range, depending on skills and experience. No employee is guaranteed salary at the amount of the lower range.
- Targeted Gross Monthly Salary: 23 917 - 28 700 PLN
- New hires who commence employment with Affirm before June 30, 2022, and are employed for one year, are eligible to receive 100 000 PLN as a sign-on bonus
- Flexible Spending Wallets for tech, food, lifestyle
- Generous time-off policies
- Away Days - wellness days to take off work and recharge
- Learning & Development programs
- Parental leave
- Robust health benefits
- Employee Resource & Community Groups
Inclusivity:
At
Affirm, People Come First is one of our core values, and that’s why diversity and inclusion are vital to our priorities as an equal opportunity employer. You can read about our D&I program
here and our progress thus far in our
2020 DEI Report.
We also believe It’s On Us to provide an inclusive interview experience for all, including people with disabilities. We are happy to provide reasonable accommodations to candidates in need of individualized support during the hiring process.
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