Manager, Software Engineering (Edge Traffic)

Job Description

Manager, Software Engineering (Edge Traffic)

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Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest.

The Traffic Engineering team owns Affirms critical routing and network infrastructure to run our core product. Our customers include both Affirms users and other engineering teams within the company. We build and expose simple interfaces of online infrastructure components such as CDN edge routing, internal RPC, and gateway and sidecar artifacts to control traffic.

As the Engineering Manager for the Edge Traffic Team you will lead a group of highly technical software and infrastructure engineers to build a resilient edge infrastructure.

What You’ll Do

• You will lead engineering teams responsible for Edge Traffic Infrastructure, ensuring our networking architecture evolves and remains resilient to Affirms growing needs.


• You will define and deliver a vision, strategy, and roadmap on a year‑long time scale for ingress and egress points of our system, tying the roadmap back to business impact.


• You will collaborate across infrastructure, security, and other engineering teams to build reliable, secure, and scalable networking infrastructure to meet the needs of external partners and internal teams.


• You will improve key metrics for availability, performance, and resiliency.


• You take ownership of your team’s operations and availability by ensuring you have the right monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, testing, and alerting in place to support keep‑the‑lights‑on and on‑call efforts.


• You will foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting code review and design standards and advocating for them beyond your team through writing and tech talks.


• You will help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, leading by example.

What We Look For

• 7+ years of engineering experience with 2+ years leading teams focused on infrastructure, networking, compute, or distributed systems.


• Proven track record in stakeholder management, ownership, and successful delivery.


• Expertise in managing large‑scale, geographically distributed cloud infrastructure systems centered on compute, networking, or databases.


• Expertise in scaling networking infrastructure like CDN, Load Balancers, or API Gateways. Familiarity with cloud providers like AWS, GCP, or Azure and vendors like Cloudflare, Fastly, or Akamai.


• You have experience delivering major features, system components, or deprecating existing functionality through a technical and execution plan. You write high quality code that is easily understood and used by others.


• You thrive in ambiguity, and are comfortable moving from low level language idioms all the way to the architecture of large systems to understand how they work.


• Your growth and impact trajectory demonstrates that you have mastered gathering and iterating on feedback from your engineering and cross‑functional peers.


• You have strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team.

Pay, Equity & Benefits

Pay Grade – 9
Equity Grade – 7

Base pay is part of a total compensation package that may include equity rewards, monthly stipends for health, wellness, and tech spending, and benefits (including 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents). Employees may be eligible for equity rewards offered by Affirm Holdings, Inc. (parent company).

Can base pay range per year: $178,000 – 228,000

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. Employees in proximal roles have the flexibility to work remotely, but will occasionally be required to work out of their assigned office. A limited number of roles remain office‑based due to the nature of their job responsibilities.

Benefits

• Health care coverage – affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents.


• Flexible Spending Wallets – generous stipends for spending on technology, food, various lifestyle needs, and family‑forming expenses.


• Time off – competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge.


• ESPP – an employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of affirm at a discount.

EEO & Accommodations

We believe It’s On Us to provide an inclusive interview experience for all, including people with disabilities. We are happy to provide reasonable accommodations to candidates in need of individualized support during the hiring process.

For U.S. positions that could be performed in Los Angeles or San Francisco, Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, affirm will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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