- 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
- 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
- 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

Benefits

- Compensation: We have a simple, adaptable, and transparent remote-first compensation structure so you can make the best decisions for yourself and your family
- Spending Wallets: Access tech, food, lifestyle, and family planning wallets for your expenses
- Supportive Communities: Get involved with our employee resource groups and community groups
- Remote-first Workforce: If your role is remote, you can set up shop anywhere in your home country
- Generous Time Off: Take the time you need when life happens
- Health Benefits: Get a plan that fits your needs
- Mental Healthcare: Take care of your mind with great mental health programs
- Parental Leave:



Birth and non-birth parents get 18 weeks’ paid leave. Plus, a 4-week return-to-work transition program, at full base pay
- Away Days: We offer 20 company-wide paid days off—which help our teams collectively pause to recharge
- Learning & Development: Engage in exciting learning programs to level up your growth
- Familiarity with least-privilege IAM models and partnering with Security on access governance
- Proven experience leading engineering teams in infrastructure, platform engineering, or adjacent domains
- Experience owning or leading Infrastructure-as-Code practices (Terraform, Spacelift, or equivalent) and GitOps-style workflows
- 7+ years of software or infrastructure engineering experience, with 2+ years of engineering management experience
- Track record of operating services with a high reliability bar (monitoring, on-call, incident response, postmortems, continuous hardening)
- Strong operational judgment and the ability to drive clarity, prioritization, and execution across a broad, heterogeneous surface area
- Strong programming background (Python, Go, or Kotlin preferred)
- 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
- Strong communication and organizational leadership skills, with a track record of mentoring and growing high-performing teams
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience
- Experience building and operating infrastructure automation that other teams adopt and depend on

📌 Manager of Software Engineering (Infra Foundations) (Canada)
🏢 Affirm
📍 Canada