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San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
$220K – $405K/yr
PythonAWSKubernetesAI
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Market pay estimate
$174,935–$295,250 / year for comparable Software Engineer roles in United States. Estimated from 1,227 similar postings (high confidence) — not stated by the employer.
Role overview
Job description
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. The Observability team builds the platform every Affirm engineer relies on to understand the behavior and performance of our systems. Our platform ingests 200+ TB/day of metrics, logs, and traces from hundreds of services across 80+ Kubernetes clusters, and when a user's checkout fails, our data is how engineers find out why. Over the next year, we’re moving to wide events, with one context-rich event per request, improving the signal-to-noise ratio to make debugging faster. We’re also introducing log sampling and building observability best practices into agentic development and code review, so that AI-assisted code is well instrumented by default. We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer to be the technical
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- Source: Affirm's official careers site (via Greenhouse) · last confirmed on the source 30 Oct 2026
- Posted 28 Oct 2026
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What they are looking for
Skills & requirements
pythonmysqlawskubernetesaikotlinterraform
Qualification
What We Look For · You have 8+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin; · This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field; For positions based in San Francisco or Los Angeles: Affirm considers qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, as required by law
Department · Infrastructure Platform Eng
Hiring company
Affirm
Technology
At Affirm, we believe that the financial industry works better for everyone when it’s fair, honest, and inclusive. We help people pay over time for almost anything—with no late fees or surprises. Through advanced technology and analytics that look beyond FICO, we’re able to serve a much broader population than other lenders.
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