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.Affirm's engineering team is building a large-scale, highly available, and global infrastructure that is shared across multiple financial products. Ensuring that our infrastructure is accessible to all engineers is critical to the success of the business. We pride ourselves on our culture across engineering of engaging in thorough technical design review, operational excellence, and capable incident response and analysis.The Infra Foundations team owns the foundational layer that every other infrastructure team builds on: AWS account provisioning, human IAM access, core networking, the IaC frameworks and workflows, and the automation that provisions and manages our cloud environments. Our mission is to provide a foundational infrastructure layer across all AWS accounts that is consistent, reliable, safe, and trustworthy, empowering every infrastructure team to provision, update, and delete their stacks quickly and safely through well-established workflows and automation.We are looking for an engineering manager to lead this team, own its roadmap and operational health, and grow the engineers who keep Affirms infrastructure foundation solid as we scale globally.What You'll DoDefine 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 workLead and mentor a team of infrastructure engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, and technical excellence, and owning hiring, performance, and career growthPartner with engineering leadership and stakeholders to align Infra Foundations priorities with broader infrastructure, platform, and security goalsOwn the reliability and safety of the foundational layer: AWS account provisioning and bootstrapping, core networking (VPCs and interconnectivity), and human IAM accessDrive 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 managementEstablish and hold the operational bar: SLAs for IAM requests, quota alerting thresholds, incident response for networking changes, and automated validation of provisioning and teardownPartner with Security to enforce least-privilege IAM and ensure recommended permissions are adopted across teamsDrive smooth adoption of Infra Foundations frameworks and best practices through self-service tooling, documentation, and knowledge sharingWhat We Look For7+ years of software or infrastructure engineering experience, with 2+ years of engineering management experienceProven experience leading engineering teams in infrastructure, platform engineering, or adjacent domainsStrong technical background in cloud-native and infrastructure systems (AWS preferred), with the ability to guide architecture and execution across accounts, VPC networking, and IAMExperience owning or leading Infrastructure-as-Code practices (Terraform, Spacelift, or equivalent) and GitOps-style workflowsExperience building and operating infrastructure automation that other teams adopt and depend onTrack record of operating services with a high reliability bar (monitoring, on-call, incident response, postmortems, continuous hardening)Robust operational judgment and the ability to drive clarity, prioritization, and execution across a broad, heterogeneous surface areaFamiliarity with least-privilege IAM models and partnering with Security on access governanceStrong programming background (Python, Go, or Kotlin preferred)Strong communication and organizational leadership skills, with a track record of mentoring and growing high-performing teamsBachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent practical experienceThis posting is for an existing vacancyThis remote role is open only to candidates residing in Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador,



Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, or Saskatchewan.Base Pay Grade- PEquity Grade- 7Employees new to Affirms typically come in at the start of the pay range. Affirms focuses on providing a simple and transparent pay structure which is based on a variety of factors, including location, experience and job-related skills.Base pay is part of a total compensation package that may include monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending, and benefits (including 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents). In addition, the employees may be eligible for equity rewards offered by Affirms Holdings, Inc. (parent company).CAN base pay range per year: $181,000 - $241,000 CAD.#Li-RemoteAffirm is proud to be a remote-first company! The majority of our roles are remote and you can work almost anywhere within the country of employment. Affirms in proximal roles have the flexibility to work remotely, but will occasionally be required to work out of their assigned Affirms office. A limited number of roles remain office-based due to the nature of their job responsibilities.We're extremely proud to offer competitive benefits that are anchored to our core value of people come first. Some key highlights of our benefits package include:Health care coverage - Affirms covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependentsFlexible Spending Wallets - generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expensesTime off - competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and rechargeESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirms at a discountWe believe It's On Us to provide an inclusive interview experience for all, including people with disabilities. We are happy to provide reasonable accommodations to candidates in need of individualized support during the hiring process.[For U.S. positions that could be performed in Los Angeles or San Francisco] Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, Affirms will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. #J-18808-Ljbffr

📌 Manager, Software Engineering (Infra Foundations) - Remote (Ottawa)
🏢 Affirm
📍 Ottawa