Build Kubernetes policy automation for Affirm’s remote-first Canadian engineering organization, using admission control, infrastructure software, and shared standards. Drive compliance from day one.

As a senior Workload Safety engineer, you will take standards from research through enforcement across Affirm’s EKS fleet. You will create self-service guidance, mentor engineers, and lead adoption across teams running services, batch jobs, and ML workloads. Your work will support availability, latency, risk, and cost decisions.

Key Responsibilities:

- Research and prototype workload safety standards
- Provide onboarding and self-service guidance to engineering teams
- Build controllers, operators, or admission policy guardrails
- Lead design, code review,



and operational readiness standards
- Adapt Kubernetes community practices to Affirm’s needs

Requirements:

- Five-plus years of production Kubernetes experience at scale
- Experience enforcing standards through admission control and policy-as-code
- Proficiency in Go or Python
- Track record leading initiatives across multiple teams
- Robust written communication for adoptable standards and guidance

Use Kubernetes policy, Go or Python, and technical leadership to make Affirm’s EKS workloads safer and more consistent.

📌 Senior Kubernetes Policy Automation Engineer (Kelowna)
🏢 Affirm
📍 Kelowna