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About the role
- Manager, Software Engineering managing Developer Environments at Affirm, enhancing developer productivity and system reliability across engineering teams.
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the vision for Developer Environments and inner-loop developer productivity at Affirm.
- Set technical strategy for your team on a year-long time scale, and tie it to critical, business-impacting projects.
- Lead and mentor a team of engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, and technical excellence.
- Partner with engineering leadership and stakeholders to align Developer Environments priorities with broader product, platform, and reliability goals.
- Own the design, scalability, reliability, and usability of the systems powering Affirm’s ephemeral developer environments used in both development and CI contexts.
- Improve environment provisioning, stability, and teardown workflows to enhance developer velocity and reliability.
- Drive measurable improvements to the developer journey (e.g., startup time, success rate, performance, debuggability, resource utilization).
- Implement monitoring, alerting, incident response processes, and operational playbooks to minimize downtime and developer impact.
- Collaborate with CI/CD and Test Platform partners to tighten feedback loops and ensure environments integrate cleanly with build/test workflows.
- Work closely across engineering to ensure smooth adoption of Developer Environments tooling and best practices.
- Identify developer pain points and lead initiatives to improve productivity through tooling, automation, and self-service.
- Foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting and improving code review and design standards, and advocating for them beyond your team through writing and knowledge sharing.
Requirements
- 7+ years of software engineering experience, with 2+ years of engineering management experience (or equivalent people leadership experience).
- Proven experience leading engineering teams in infrastructure, platform engineering, developer productivity, or adjacent domains.
- Strong technical background in backend/infrastructure systems (Python or Kotlin preferred, but not required) and the ability to guide architecture and execution.
- Experience building and operating cloud-native systems (AWS, Kubernetes) and using infrastructure-as-code practices.
- Hands-on familiarity with containerized environments (Docker/Kubernetes) and CI/CD systems (e.g., Buildkite, Jenkins, GitHub Actions).
- Track record of operating services with a high reliability bar (monitoring, on-call, incident response, postmortems, continuous hardening).
- Strong communication and leadership skills, with a track record of mentoring and growing high-performing teams.
- Comfort balancing trade-offs between build vs. buy, speed vs. safety, and developer experience vs. operational constraints.
- 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
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