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About the role
- Senior backend engineer defining workload safety standards for Affirm’s large-scale EKS infrastructure. Automating Kubernetes policy, scaling, reliability, and fleet-wide operational safeguards.
Responsibilities
- Define and evolve workload safety standards for Affirm's Amazon EKS fleet
- Own standards end to end, from research and prototyping through onboarding, self-service guidance, automation, and policy guardrails
- Lead cross-team initiatives from design through fleet-wide rollout
- Mentor engineers and set standards for design, code review, and operational readiness
- Isolate workloads by criticality and resource profile
- Resolve stuck workloads and node lifecycle problems
- Determine safe cluster operating limits and develop control-plane scaling patterns
- Analyze workload resource profiles to guide EC2 instance strategy and automate the analysis
- Measure standards' impact on availability, latency, risk, and cost to prioritize the roadmap
- Participate in on-call for Kubernetes runtime issues
- Collaborate with service, batch, ML, deployment, capacity, and SRE teams
- Monitor Kubernetes community best practices and adapt them to Affirm's needs
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience running Kubernetes in production at scale, ideally Amazon EKS across many clusters
- Deep understanding of Kubernetes resource management and scheduling, including requests and limits, OOM and CPU throttling behavior, affinity and anti-affinity, taints and tolerations, and topology spread constraints
- Solid grasp of pod lifecycle and disruption management, including graceful termination, pod disruption budgets, and node draining
- Experience enforcing configuration standards through admission control and policy-as-code, such as OPA Gatekeeper or Kyverno
- Proficiency in Go or Python, including production infrastructure software such as Kubernetes controllers, operators, or admission webhooks
- Strong production debugging skills and ability to turn recurring incidents into systemic fixes
- Track record of leading technical initiatives across multiple teams, driving adoption of shared standards, and mentoring engineers
- Experience quantifying infrastructure-change impact on availability, latency, and cost
- Strong written communication
Benefits
- Monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending
- 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for employees and dependents
- Flexible time off
- Generous holiday calendars
- Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) with discounted Affirm stock
- Inclusive interview process with accommodations for candidates with disabilities
- Remote-first flexibility
- In-person onboarding experience for all new hires
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