Manager, Software Engineering (Reliability Platform)

Summary

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.