Shape high-volume telemetry and observability standards at Affirm, remotely across Canada, with expertise in OpenTelemetry, Kafka, and Terraform.
Affirm is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to guide Observability’s year-long technical strategy. You will improve signal quality through wide events and sampling while helping AI coding agents and reviews identify instrumentation gaps. The role includes mentoring six engineers and advocating platform standards across teams.
Key Responsibilities: Design sampling strategies that reduce volume and cost
Advance wide events for faster debugging
Build observability practices into agentic development
Drive platform standards through tooling and engagement
Provide feedback, guidance, writing, and technical talks
Requirements: 8+ years designing and developing backend systems
Experience operating high-volume metrics, logs, or traces
Knowledge of OpenTelemetry, Kafka, and Terraform
Understanding of sampling, cardinality management, and SLOs
Experience collaborating across global engineering teams
Use telemetry platform expertise and observability leadership to improve how Affirm engineers understand system behavior and performance.