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Senior Software Engineer, backend

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Senior Software Engineer, backend in Canada new

  • Remote

Responsibilities

  • Build and operate the control plane for large-scale distributed SQL databases, automating provisioning, failover, backups, and upgrades.
  • Design and execute reliability-focused schema and data migrations across multi-tenant database clusters with zero downtime.
  • Own the Kubernetes networking stack connecting services to storage, including connection proxies such as ProxySQL.
  • Define and deliver quarterly team goals while leading engineers through open-ended technical problems.
  • Collaborate with product management, design, analytics, and stakeholders on product decisions, constraints, risks, and trade-offs.
  • Monitor operational metrics, support availability and on-call efforts, and address project, process, technology, and business issues.
  • Establish code review and design standards and share expertise through writing and technical talks.
  • Provide feedback and guidance to support talent development.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience as a software engineer.
  • Experience designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale using technologies such as Python, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, Terraform, and Kubernetes.
  • Hands-on experience with large-scale production database deployments and distributed database architecture.
  • Expertise with database technologies such as MySQL, TiDB, Postgres, Spanner, Vitess, or CockroachDB.
  • Strong understanding of data modeling, SQL tuning, performance optimization, benchmarking, load testing, and capacity planning.
  • Familiarity with connection poolers and proxies such as ProxySQL, RDS Proxy, PgBouncer, or PgDog.
  • Experience building database control-plane or automation tooling for provisioning, failover, upgrades, and schema migrations, ideally on Kubernetes.
  • Experience executing zero-downtime migrations and major production database upgrades, including building repeatable CLI tooling or runbooks.
  • Understanding of Kubernetes networking, service discovery, and TLS for debugging service-to-database connection and failover problems.
  • Ability to define technical plans, design extensible systems, write high-quality code, and make significant changes safely in large codebases.
  • Strong ownership, communication, collaboration, and feedback-seeking skills.
  • Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience.

Benefits

  • Remote-first work arrangement for candidates residing in Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, or Saskatchewan, with occasional in-person work and an in-person onboarding experience.
  • 100% subsidized medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents.
  • Monthly technology, health, and wellness spending stipends.
  • Flexible time off and generous holiday calendars.
  • Employee stock purchase plan allowing employees to buy Affirm stock at a discount.
  • Inclusive interview accommodations for candidates with disabilities.

Affirm

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