Affirm
Senior Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Compute Platform)
US, Canada
UTC-10 to UTC-3.5 $209k to $325k per year Full time
Lead or Staff
- Where you can live
- Remote US ยท Remote Canada
- Working hours
- Overlap with UTC-10 to UTC-3.5
- Salary
- USD 209,000 to 269,000 per year
- Posted
- October 30, 2026
Summary from the posting
As a member of the Compute Platform organization, you will collaborate with other teams - including Product, Infrastructure, Traffic, Cost & Capacity Engineering to:
Architect and evolve Affirm's EKS platform, driving strategy across cluster lifecycle, node management, and shared cluster components
Lead the technical direction for cluster provisioning, upgrades, and teardown through standardized IaC (Terraform, Spacelift) and self-service workflows
Own the reliability of core shared components across the fleet (Karpenter, CoreDNS, VPC CNI, Kube Proxy, Metrics Server, etc) and the CI/CD pipeline that ships them consistently
This is a short summary. The full description, requirements and the application form are on Affirm's own career page.