Drive EKS architecture, cluster automation, and AWS infrastructure strategy for Affirm’s globally shared financial-products platform. Work remotely first, with flexibility built in.

As a Senior Staff Software Engineer, you will establish technical direction for more than 90 EKS clusters across environments and regions. You will standardize provisioning, upgrades, node lifecycle, and shared component delivery using Infrastructure as Code. Your scope includes capacity planning, cost strategy, observability, workload isolation, and collaboration with platform, product, SRE, and capacity teams.

Key Responsibilities:

- Define EKS cluster lifecycle and node-management strategy
- Automate provisioning, upgrades, teardown, and remediation workflows
- Drive node scaling, bin packing, and EC2 selection
- Establish audits,



metrics, reporting, and risk measurement
- Partner with workload teams to shape platform capabilities

Requirements:

- Proven complex platform delivery across 10+ engineering years
- Six-plus years operating production Kubernetes at scale
- Robust AWS architecture across EC2, VPC, IAM, and EKS
- Terraform, Spacelift, and GitOps delivery experience
- Systems thinking, leadership, and cross-functional influence

Bring senior technical leadership to Affirm’s EKS infrastructure through AWS architecture, automation, capacity strategy, and operational excellence.

📌 Staff EKS Infrastructure Architect (Prince Edward Island)
🏢 Affirm
📍 Prince Edward Island