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Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Observability)

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Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Observability) in Canada new

  • Remote

Responsibilities

  • Own the architecture of Affirm’s telemetry pipeline, balancing reliability, query performance, and cost at 200+ TB per day.
  • Design log-sampling strategies that reduce volume and cost while preserving incident-response signal.
  • Shape observability practices for agentic development, AI coding agents, and code review.
  • Define the team’s technical strategy and roadmap and lead major cross-functional projects.
  • Mentor six engineers, develop talent, and provide technical guidance and feedback.
  • Establish code review, design, monitoring, triage, playbook, testing, alerting, and on-call standards.
  • Drive adoption of observability platform standards across engineering teams through tooling and engagement.
  • Collaborate with product management, design, analytics, infrastructure, and product teams on technical trade-offs and sustainability.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale using languages such as Python or Kotlin.
  • Extensive experience developing highly available distributed systems with technologies such as AWS, MySQL, Flink, and Kubernetes.
  • Experience building or operating high-volume telemetry systems using technologies such as OpenTelemetry, Kafka, and Terraform.
  • Strong knowledge of observability practices including structured and wide events, sampling, cardinality management, and SLOs.
  • Experience driving adoption of platform standards across many engineering teams through tooling and engagement.
  • Experience defining technical and execution plans for major features, system components, or deprecations.
  • Ability to write high-quality, understandable, reusable code and work from low-level language details through large-system architecture.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills and a demonstrated track record of incorporating feedback.

Benefits

  • Remote-first work arrangement with flexibility to work from almost anywhere within the country of employment; occasional office work may be required and all new hires attend in-person onboarding.
  • 100% subsidized medical coverage, including coverage for employees and dependents, plus dental and vision benefits.
  • Monthly technology, health, and wellness spending stipends.
  • Flexible time off and generous holiday calendars.
  • Employee stock purchase plan with a discount.
  • Inclusive interview process with accommodations available for candidates with disabilities.

Salary: $181k - $241k/yr

Affirm

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