Build reliable distributed systems for Affrim’s remote Canada engineering organization, using Kubernetes and cloud technologies at exceptional scale.
This Staff Software Engineer will lead the Observability team’s technical direction while designing and operating backend systems. You will balance reliability, query performance, and cost across 200+ TB of daily telemetry. The work spans infrastructure, product, analytics, design, and engineering teams.
Key Responsibilities: Set year-long technical strategy for the Observability team
Drive architecture decisions for telemetry reliability and query performance
Maintain monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, testing, and alerting
Establish code review and design standards through writing




Partner with infrastructure and product teams on delivery
Requirements: 8+ years developing and launching backend systems at scale
Track record with highly available distributed systems
Experience using AWS, MySQL, Flink, and Kubernetes
Ability to define technical and execution plans
Solid written and verbal collaboration skills
Apply distributed systems leadership and backend architecture experience to Affrim’s observability infrastructure across remote Canada.

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📌 Staff Distributed Systems Engineer Canada (British Columbia)
🏢 Affirm
📍 British Columbia