Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE & Platform Reliability)

About the Position

We are seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE & Platform Reliability) to join our remote team in Poland. At Affirm, we are committed to reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, providing consumers with the flexibility to buy now and pay later without hidden fees or compounding interest.

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver quarterly goals for your team, leading engineers through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems.
• Support peers and stakeholders in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with various teams.
• Proactively identify technical solutions and operational processes that strengthen incident readiness, response, and post-incident analysis.
• Support the operations and availability of your team’s artifacts by creating and monitoring metrics.
• Foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting or improving code review and design standards.
• Help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale using scripting and development languages like Bash, Python, or Kotlin.
• Experience developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes.
• Meaningful experience contributing in or driving parts of the Incident Lifecycle process.
• 4+ years working in a Site Reliability or Production Engineering team.
• Demonstrate curiosity with empathy, and strong opinions loosely held.
• Experience defining a technical plan for the delivery of a significant feature or system component with an elegant, simple, and extensible design.
• Experience in making impactful changes in a large code base, and have developed a suite of tools and practices that enable you and your team to do so safely.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

We Offer

• Competitive salary range of 308,000 zł - 428,000 zł per year.
• Equity awarded in US Dollars, including new hire equity of $32,000-$48,000 and an annual refresh of $10,000.
• Comprehensive benefits including competitive paid time off, private healthcare, MultiSport card, learning and development programs, family healthcare support, mental well-being support, financial well-being support, Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), and eligibility for creative tax benefits.
• Flexible spending wallets for technology and wellbeing related needs, reimbursable up to 1390 zł per month.

About the Company

Affirm is proud to be a remote-first company! The majority of our roles are remote and you can work almost anywhere within the country of employment. We’re extremely proud to offer competitive benefits that are anchored to our core value of people come first.

Apply for this job

If you are motivated and meet the requirements, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity.