Senior Manager, Software Engineering (Orchestration Services)
Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest.
The Data and Storage Services team is responsible for handling all of affirm’s data, from critical online checkout databases to batch orchestration, streaming infrastructure, event‑driven frameworks, BI, and analytics tools. Our mission is to provide trustworthy, intuitive, and cost‑efficient solutions for our users.
What You’ll Do
- Lead a team of engineers and managers with empathy while fostering a high-performance, ownership‑driven & inclusive culture to develop frameworks, systems, and tools for new affirm products.
- Oversee teams managing storage services including relational, key‑value, and analytics storage infrastructure and tools at scale.
- Understand and drive business and engineering metrics, promoting a culture of reliability, security, and productivity.
- Collaborate with tech leads, program managers, and other engineering managers on security, tools, architecture, planning, and delivery of multiple concurrent projects.
- Provide leadership and growth opportunities to team members, mentor engineers, recruit, and represent affirm hiring brands.
- Lead technical decisions, projects, and roadmaps within the batch and streaming teams, shaping affirm’s strategy for managing and serving orchestration workloads.
- Collaborate with peers, leadership, and stakeholders across platform engineering and product engineering organizations.
- Develop a multi‑year roadmap to design and implement frameworks, services, and tools for new affirm products and business needs.
What We Look For
- Solid leadership and interpersonal skills.
- 10+ years of experience in managing multiple diverse and inclusive teams and delivering large cross‑functional technical programs.
- Proven track record in stakeholder management, ownership, and successful delivery.
- Expertise in managing large‑scale, geographically distributed compute and data processing systems, including data lake solutions and workflow orchestration frameworks.
- Experience with scaling frameworks like Spark, Flink, Kafka on Kubernetes, AWS, S3, and Apache Iceberg.
- Strong mentorship, cross‑functional project execution, and individual contribution.
- Excellent communication skills and a growth mindset.
- Experience in the data infrastructure domain and a passion for leading technical teams and contributing to open source solutions.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
Compensation & Benefits
Pay Grade: R Equity Grade: 15 USA base pay range (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT): $260,000 – $310,000
Remote‑first company; roles are remote across the United States.
Benefits Highlights
- Health care coverage – affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents.
- Flexible spending wallets – generous stipends for tech, food, lifestyle, and family expenses.
- Competitive vacation and holiday schedules.
- Employee stock purchase plan.
EEO Statement
Affirm is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We believe it’s on us to provide an inclusive interview experience for all, including people with disabilities and those with arrest and conviction records in compliance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative.
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