Remote Freedom

Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Observability)

Affirm

Remote · Remote US Remote US5d ago

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Skills

PythonKotlinKafkaAWSKubernetesTerraformMySQLProduct ManagementRoadmapping

What you'll do

  • · You will own the architecture of Affirm’s telemetry pipeline, balancing reliability, query performance, and cost at 200+ TB/day.
  • · You will design log sampling strategies that significantly reduce volume and cost without losing the signal engineers need during incidents.
  • · You will shape how observability fits into agentic development, so that AI coding agents and code review catch instrumentation gaps before code ships.
  • · You will be responsible for setting technical strategy for your team on a year-long time scale, and help your team tie it together with critical, business-impacting projects.
  • · You will collaborate across teams in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics to ensure technical sustainability, risks and trade-offs are well understood and managed.
  • · You will act as a force-multiplier for your team through your definition and advocacy of technical solutions and operational processes.
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