Staff Software Engineer, Backend – Continuous Integration

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About the role

  • Staff Engineer at Affirm driving Continuous Integration for development pipelines and software quality. Collaborating across teams to enhance developer experiences and productivity standards.

Responsibilities

  • Own the design, scalability, and reliability of build and pipelines across multiple services and platforms.
  • Ensure fast, reliable feedback cycles for developers by optimizing build times, test coverage, and reporting.
  • Implement monitoring, alerting, and incident response processes for CI systems to minimize downtime.
  • Work closely with across engineering to ensure smooth integrations and deployment workflows.
  • Identify developer pain points and lead initiatives to improve productivity through tooling, automation, and best practices.
  • Evangelize CI/CD practices across the organization to raise engineering efficiency standards.
  • Contribute to and help drive the vision for continuous integration and developer productivity infrastructure.
  • Lead and mentor other CI engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, and technical excellence.
  • Partner with engineering leadership to align CI systems with broader product and platform goals.

Requirements

  • Proven experience driving and leading engineering efforts in CI, build systems, or developer productivity domains.
  • Strong background in modern build systems (e.g. GitHub, Buildkite, Artifactory, Bazel).
  • Familiarity with cloud-native environments (AWS, Kubernetes) and infrastructure-as-code practices.
  • Solid programming background (Python, Kotlin, Java, or similar) and ability to guide technical decision-making.
  • Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to balance long-term vision with short-term impact.
  • This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field
  • Proficiency with managing build systems and frameworks for large monorepos. Preferred experience in Bazel.
  • Active contributor to open source projects or previous experience with large-scale software development at a leading tech company is a plus.

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

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Lead

Salary

CA$178,000 - CA$228,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

AWSCloudJavaKotlinKubernetesOpen SourcePython

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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