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. 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 affirm's infrastructure foundation solid as we scale globally.

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 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 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 Drive smooth adoption of Infra Foundations frameworks and best practices through self-service tooling, documentation, and knowledge sharing 7+ years of software or infrastructure engineering experience, with 2+ years of engineering management experience ~ Proven experience leading engineering teams in infrastructure, platform engineering, or adjacent domains ~ Strong technical background in cloud-native and infrastructure systems (AWS preferred), with the ability to guide architecture and execution across accounts, VPC networking, and IAM ~ Experience building and operating infrastructure automation that other teams adopt and depend on ~ Track record of operating services with a high reliability bar (monitoring, on-call, incident response, postmortems,



continuous hardening) ~ Strong programming background (Python, Go, or Kotlin preferred) ~ Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience This 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.

Equity

Grade - 7 Base pay is part of a total compensation package that may include monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending, and perks (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 affirm holdings, inc.

CAN base pay range per year: $181,000 - $241,000 CAD. Affirm 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. affirmers in proximal roles have the flexibility to work remotely, but will occasionally be required to work out of their assigned affirm office.

A limited number of roles remain office-based due to the nature of their job responsibilities. 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 We believe It’s On Us to provide an inclusive interview experience for all, including people with disabilities.

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