Affirm
Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Workload Safety)
Remote US +1 · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 21, 2026
- Location
- Remote US
Remote Canada - Experience
- 5+ years running Kubernetes in production at scale; no alternatives stated.
About the job
Develop and enforce workload safety standards and automation across Affirm’s Amazon EKS fleet to improve reliability, latency, and cost at scale.
What you'll do
- Define, roll out, and automate workload configuration standards across EKS clusters.
- Lead cross-team initiatives, mentor engineers, and address recurring Kubernetes runtime and node lifecycle issues.
- Monitor cluster capacity and workload resource profiles; measure standards’ effects on availability, latency, risk, and cost.
What they ask for
- 5+ years running Kubernetes in production at scale.
- Deep knowledge of Kubernetes resource management, scheduling, pod lifecycle, and disruption management.
- Experience enforcing configuration standards with admission control and policy-as-code; proficiency in Go or Python for production infrastructure software.
- Strong production debugging, cross-team leadership, mentoring, impact measurement, and written communication skills.
Tools
Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, OPA Gatekeeper, Kyverno, Go, Python, Karpenter, EC2
AI focus
Supports ML workloads running on EKS; no AI development work is stated.
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