Transparent financing for modern consumers
Affirm, headquartered in Chinatown, San Francisco, CA, is a leading fintech company specializing in point-of-sale installment loans. With over 21 million consumers and 337,000+ merchants including Shopify, KAYAK, and Walmart, Affirm offers flexible payback options ranging from 3 to 36 months. The co...
Affirm offers a remote-first workforce policy, allowing employees to work from anywhere in their home country. Benefits include 18 weeks of paid paren...
Affirm's culture is centered around transparency and consumer empowerment, with a focus on delivering honest financial products. The company actively ...
Affirm • Remote Poland
Affirm is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to enhance application performance and reliability. You'll work with AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes to implement best practices in incident management and observability. This role requires experience in systems engineering and a strong understanding of distributed systems.
You have 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering or a related field, demonstrating a strong understanding of how to operate and maintain complex systems. Your background includes hands-on experience with cloud platforms like AWS, and you are proficient in containerization technologies such as Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes. You possess a solid foundation in Linux systems and are familiar with monitoring and observability tools like Prometheus. Your experience with infrastructure as code tools, particularly Terraform, allows you to automate and streamline deployment processes effectively.
You are a proactive problem solver who thrives in high-pressure environments, capable of driving incident management processes and ensuring system reliability. Your communication skills enable you to engage effectively with engineering teams, guiding them in best practices for application performance and reliability. You are passionate about building resilient systems and are always looking for ways to improve operational efficiency.
Experience with chaos engineering and load testing is a plus, as is familiarity with configuration management tools. You have a keen interest in emerging technologies and are eager to learn and adapt to new challenges in the SRE space. Your collaborative spirit and ability to mentor others make you a valuable addition to any team.
In this role, you will be responsible for defining and implementing frameworks for operating applications at scale. You will guide the development of Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and ensure that teams have the visibility they need into application performance. Your expertise will drive the incident management and analysis process, helping to minimize downtime and improve user experience.
You will engage in architectural discussions, providing insights that shape the future of our systems. Your recommendations on observability and alerting configurations will be crucial in enhancing our monitoring capabilities. You will also play a key role in change management and deployment practices, ensuring that all changes are made with minimal disruption to services.
As part of the SRE team, you will collaborate closely with engineering partners to foster a culture of reliability and resilience across the organization. You will provide training and consulting to teams, empowering them to take ownership of their services and operate with excellence. Your contributions will directly impact the customer experience, making it more reliable and enjoyable.
At Affirm, we believe in creating a supportive and inclusive work environment. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, including flexible work arrangements that allow you to balance your professional and personal life. You will have the opportunity to work on meaningful projects that make a difference in the lives of our customers. Join us in our mission to reinvent credit and help consumers achieve their financial goals with transparency and fairness.
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