Lead Affrim’s observability platform remotely in Canada, combining backend architecture with telemetry expertise across high-volume distributed systems.
As Staff Software Engineer and technical lead, you will shape observability strategy while remaining hands-on. The platform processes 200+ TB daily across hundreds of services and 80+ Kubernetes clusters. Your work will advance wide events, log sampling, and instrumentation for agentic development.
Key Responsibilities: Own telemetry pipeline architecture, reliability, performance, and cost
Design log sampling strategies preserving incident investigation signals
Shape observability practices for AI coding agents and reviews
Define technical strategy and lead cross-functional projects




Mentor six engineers through feedback, guidance, and example
Requirements: 8+ years designing and launching backend systems at scale
Python or Kotlin experience developing distributed backend systems
AWS, MySQL, Flink, Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, Kafka, or Terraform
Experience operating high-volume metrics, logs, or traces
Solid communication across global engineering teams
Bring scalable backend engineering, observability judgment, and technical leadership to Affrim’s remote Canada platform team.

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📌 Staff Observability Backend Engineer (British Columbia)
🏢 Affirm
📍 British Columbia