Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Online Storage)

Summary

Staff-level backend engineer responsible for setting technical strategy and driving the roadmap for Affirm's Online Storage platform, which manages OLTP systems including MySQL, DynamoDB, Distributed SQL, and Redis. You'll design and build scalable datastore components, develop control planes for managing hundreds of databases at scale, and lead automated schema/data migrations, disaster recovery, and performance tuning. Requires 8+ years of backend systems development, 5+ years of hands-on database expertise (relational and distributed SQL), and deep knowledge of cloud-native database architecture, schema design, query optimization, sharding, and capacity planning.