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 teamDrive architecture decisions for telemetry reliability and query performanceMaintain monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, testing, and alertingEstablish code review and design standards through writingPartner with infrastructure and product teams on deliveryRequirements:
8+ years developing and launching backend systems at scaleTrack record with highly available distributed systemsExperience using AWS, MySQL, Flink, and KubernetesAbility to define technical and execution plansStrong written and verbal collaboration skillsApply distributed systems leadership and backend architecture experience to Affrim’s observability infrastructure across remote Canada.