Affirm
Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Observability)
US
UTC-10 to UTC-5 $230k to $290k per year Full time
Lead or Staff
- Where you can live
- Remote US
- Working hours
- Overlap with UTC-10 to UTC-5
- Salary
- USD 230,000 to 290,000 per year
- Posted
- October 28, 2026
Summary from the posting
· 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.
This is a short summary. The full description, requirements and the application form are on Affirm's own career page.