Affirm

Senior Manager, Software Engineering – Orchestration Services

Affirm

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $232,000 - $310,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

ApacheAWSCloudKafkaKubernetesOpen SourceSpark

About the role

  • Lead a team of engineers and managers with empathy while fostering a high-performance, ownership-driven & inclusive culture to develop frameworks, systems, and tools for new Affirm products.
  • Oversee teams managing storage services including relational, key-value, and analytics storage infrastructure and tools at scale.
  • Understand and drive business and engineering metrics, promoting a culture of reliability, security, and productivity.
  • Collaborate with tech leads, program managers, and other engineering managers on security, tools, architecture, planning, and delivery of multiple concurrent projects.
  • Work across the engineering organization and with internal and external partners.
  • Provide leadership and growth opportunities to team members, mentor engineers, recruit, and represent Affirm hiring brands.
  • Lead technical decisions, projects, and roadmaps within the Batch and Streaming teams, shaping Affirm’s strategy for managing and serving orchestration workloads.
  • Collaborate with peers, leadership, and stakeholders across platform engineering and product engineering organizations.
  • In collaboration with tech leads, develop a multi year roadmap to design and implement frameworks, services, and tools for new Affirm products and business needs.
  • Guide, tutor, and aid in the professional growth of junior and senior engineers within the team.

Requirements

  • Solid leadership and interpersonal skills.
  • 10+ years of experience in managing multiple diverse and inclusive teams and delivering large cross-functional technical programs.
  • Proven track record in stakeholder management, ownership, and successful delivery.
  • Expertise in managing large-scale, geographically distributed compute and data processing systems, including data lake solutions and Workflow Orchestration frameworks.
  • Expertise in scaling frameworks like Spark, Flink and, Kafka on Kubernetes and cloud providers like AWS, leveraging storage systems such as AWS S3 and Apache Iceberg.
  • Capable of mentorship, cross-functional project execution, and individual contribution.
  • Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills with a growth mindset.
  • Experience in the data infrastructure domain and a passion for leading technical teams and contributing to Open Source solutions.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
Benefits
  • Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents
  • Flexible Spending Wallets - generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses
  • Time off - competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge
  • ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
leadershipstakeholder managementdata processing systemsdata lake solutionsWorkflow Orchestration frameworksSparkFlinkKafkaKubernetesAWS
Soft skills
interpersonal skillscommunication skillsmentorshipgrowth mindsetteam managementcross-functional project executionempathyinclusive culturehigh-performance cultureownership