The opportunity
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.
What you'll do
Define and drive the vision and multi-quarter roadmap, tying foundational: investments to critical, business-impacting outcomes while protecting space for tech-debt reduction and reliability work
Lead and mentor a team of infrastructure engineers, fostering a culture of: ownership, collaboration, and technical excellence, and owning hiring, performance, and career growth
Partner with engineering leadership and stakeholders to align Infra: Foundations priorities with broader infrastructure, platform, and security goals
Own the reliability and safety of the foundational layer: AWS account provisioning and bootstrapping, core networking (VPCs and interconnectivity), and human IAM access
Drive the team's automation charter, delivering frameworks that let other: infra teams provision, update, and tear down complex stacks and whole environments safely on the existing IaC rails (GitHub, Spacelift)
Steward critical operational programs including AWS quota management and: notifications, AMI patch management, and Ansible-based configuration management
What they're looking for
- Establish and hold the operational bar: SLAs for IAM requests, quota alerting thresholds, incident response for networking changes, and automated validation of provisioning and teardown
- Partner with Security to enforce least-privilege IAM and ensure recommended: permissions are adopted across teams
- Drive smooth adoption of Infra Foundations frameworks and best practices: through self-service tooling, documentation, and knowledge sharing
