Key skills
Risk Management
About this role
Role Overview
- Set the vision and drive execution for Reliability Engineering at Affirm
- Own and coordinate delivery of high availability of core Affirm’s services, to attain our service level standards and expectations with external partners
- Iterate and maintain a best-in-industry global incident response & lifecycle program
- Build software and program management structure to perform continual risk management across the entire Affirm system and Engineering organization
- Run a robust development lifecycle establishing a culture for operational excellence, while experimenting and failing fast
- Work with a wide variety of cross functional partners outside of engineering ranging from product, enterprise risk, security, legal and compliance
- Hire and build a global team of SREs, system engineers, and full stack engineers
- Cultivate a respectful and supportive environment for all team members that effectively demonstrates the diversity of the team
Requirements
- 15+ years of relevant experience in software and site reliability engineering
- Experience leading SRE, systems engineering, and full stack engineering teams
- Successful track record driving key outcomes that drive the company’s success
- Comfortable partnering across disciplines and influencing across a wide variety of leaders
- World-class communicator with excellent instincts for empathetic messaging
- Keen technical mind comfortable reading and understanding full-stack code
- Proven track record of establishing and growing teams, retaining talent, and comfort working with ambiguity
- This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field
Benefits
- Health care coverage
- Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents
- Flexible Spending Wallets
- generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses
- Time off
- competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge
- ESPP
- An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount