The opportunity
At Affirm, we exist for the moments that matter—giving people a clear, predictable way to pay over time, with no hidden fees, no surprises, and no tradeoffs on what matters most.
What you'll do
You will build and operate the control plane for large-scale distributed SQL: databases such as MySQL and TiDB, automating provisioning, failover, backups and upgrades end to end.
You will design and execute reliability-focused schema and data migrations: across multi-tenant database clusters, with zero downtime for the products that depend on them.
You will own the networking stack that connects services to storage on: Kubernetes, including connection proxies such as ProxySQL, and tune it for latency, resilience and failover.
You will be responsible for owning and delivering quarterly goals for your: team, leading engineers on your team through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems, and ensuring that everyone is supported throughout delivery.
You will support your peers and stakeholders in the product development: lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics by participating in ideation, articulating technical constraints, and partnering on decisions that properly consider risks and trade-offs.
You will proactively identify project, process, technology or business: issues, advocate for them, and lead in solving them.
What they're looking for
- You will support the operations and availability of your team’s artifacts by: creating and monitoring metrics, escalating when needed, and supporting “keep the lights on” & on-call efforts.
- You will foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting or: improving code review and design standards for your team, and advocating for them beyond your team through your writing and tech talks.
- You will help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example.
