The Compute team provides a Kubernetes-based platform that runs all of Affirm - enabling management, configuration, provisioning and operation of our compute infrastructure. Our customers are not only Affirm users, but also other engineering teams at Affirm. As a team, we develop and expose simple, self-serve interfaces that every Affirm engineer uses daily. We are building the ability to seamlessly enable high availability, region failover and reliability for both online and offline workloads - along with the powerful orchestration of deploying to our global fleet of compute nodes while dynamically scaling up and down to handle our traffic patterns with minimal cost.

What You'll Do

• Drive technical decisions, projects, and execution within the team.
• Collaborate with technical leads, and management across the platform, engineering, and product engineering organizations.
• Play a meaningful role in defining and helping to implement our platform taking into account the important principles of Fault-Tolerance, Isolation, Operability, Availability, Resilience (including full region failover).
• Design and build frameworks, services, and tools to handle new Affirm products and business requirements that securely scale over millions of users and their transactions.
• Educate, mentor and grow engineers in the team.

What We Look For

• Hands on coding and debugging experience using modern software delivery methods to develop services using Python, Go, or JVM-based languages (Java, Kotlin, Scala)
• Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), EKS, EC2 and/or other cloud providers as well as experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as code
• Familiarity with Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) is a plus. We use technologies such as Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Docker, gRPC, Envoy, Istio, Celery/RabbitMQ, and NGINX but we are always looking for new technologies to adopt.
• Hands-on experience building platforms at scale for containerized workloads, particularly Kubernetes, including cluster provisioning, operations, and workflow orchestration.
• Experience with developing components within Kubernetes (eg: controllers) is a plus.
• You value keeping costs low while building your products.
• An eye for designing easy-to-use, customer-focused systems that other engineers will use to manage their infrastructure
• You prefer using, enhancing, and contributing to Open Source solutions rather than building solutions from ground up.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, related technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience.