Architect Kubernetes platforms with Go and AWS expertise at affirm, working remotely from within Canada. Shape reliable infrastructure for thousands of workloads.

As a Senior Staff Software Engineer on the Compute Platform team, you will define technical vision for affirm’s Amazon EKS foundation. You will guide fleet automation, workload safety, and platform standards across 90+ production clusters. The work spans Terraform, Spacelift, ArgoCD, custom Kubernetes controllers, Karpenter, and OPA/Gatekeeper.

Key Responsibilities

Architect EKS fleet lifecycle, node provisioning, and shared components

Automate provisioning, upgrades, teardown, and GitOps delivery pipelines

Own Karpenter, CoreDNS, VPC CNI, Kube-Proxy, and Metrics Server

Enforce workload safety standards and admission policies





Build Kubernetes controllers, operators, and developer platform tooling

Requirements

10+ years qualified software or infrastructure engineering experience

6+ years operating production Kubernetes clusters at scale

Deep AWS EKS, EC2, VPC, IAM, and Kubernetes expertise

Expert Go or Python controller and operator development

Advanced Terraform, Spacelift, and GitOps deployment experience

Lead affirm’s Kubernetes platform strategy through AWS architecture, automation, workload reliability, policy enforcement, and technical mentorship.

📌 Senior Staff Kubernetes Platform Engineer (Winnipeg)
🏢 The Briefed
📍 Winnipeg