Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Observability)

📋 Description

• Own the architecture of Affirm's telemetry pipeline, balancing reliability, query performance, and
• Design log sampling strategies that significantly reduce volume and cost without losing the signal
• Shape how observability fits into agentic development, so that AI coding agents and code review
• Set technical strategy for your team on a year-long time scale, and help your team tie it together
• Collaborate across teams in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product
• Act as a force-multiplier for your team through your definition and advocacy of technical solutions

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages
• Extensive track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like
• Built or operated high-volume telemetry systems (metrics, logs, and/or traces) using technologies
• Well-informed point of view on modern observability practices such as structured and wide events
• Driven adoption of a platform standard across many engineering teams, through both tooling and
• Experience delivering major features, system components or deprecating existing functionality in a

🎁 Benefits

• 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents.
• Monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending.
• Flexible time off and generous holiday calendars.
• Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) lets you buy Affirm stock at a discount.
• Equity rewards offered by Affirm Holdings, Inc. (parent company).