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