Lead a product engineering team building Affirm's next-generation Reliability and Risk Management platform, combining observability, AI, and operational workflows. You will translate operational challenges into technical requirements, develop scalable reliability and risk management capabilities, and drive alignment across Platform Engineering, SRE, Infrastructure, and product teams to define standards and deliver critical reliability initiatives.
Lead a Reliability Platform Engineering team at Affirm responsible for building observability, risk management, and operational intelligence systems that help engineers manage production reliability at scale. You'll translate operational challenges into technical requirements, develop scalable reliability capabilities leveraging AI and automation, and drive alignment across Platform Engineering, SRE, Infrastructure, and product teams.… The role requires 7+ years of backend/full-stack engineering experience with 2+ years of engineering leadership, deep expertise with observability tools and SRE practices, and strong programming skills in Python, Kotlin, Java, or similar languages.
Staff-level backend engineer responsible for setting technical strategy and owning search and recommendation systems at scale. You'll design and launch highly available distributed systems using Python or Kotlin, collaborate across product/design/analytics to balance technical sustainability with business impact, and lead a team through code review standards, mentorship, and operational excellence.… The role requires 8+ years of backend systems experience, 2+ years in search/recommendations, and proficiency with AWS, MySQL, Kubernetes, and modern architecture patterns.
Affirm seeks an early-career Application Security Engineer to partner with product and engineering teams identifying application security risks, reviewing code for vulnerabilities, and building lightweight tooling and automation to scale AppSec workflows. The role involves assessing vulnerabilities from multiple sources, contributing to vulnerability management workflows, translating security findings into repeatable mechanisms like secure coding guidance and detection logic, and communicating security issues to technical and non-technical audiences.… The ideal candidate has 0–2+ years of hands-on security or software engineering experience, foundational programming ability in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Kotlin, or similar languages, comfort reading and reasoning about unfamiliar code, and Git/GitHub proficiency. Success requires a blend of offensive and defensive security skills, ability to work collaboratively without formal authority, and commitment to developing technical security expertise through practical work and labs.