Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE & Platform Reliability)

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.

Site Reliability Engineering at Affirm is a small, yet crucial, team that helps our Engineering partners to “Operate What They Own” with excellence to protect their customers’ experience. SRE accomplishes this through defining frameworks and best practices for operating applications, building tooling, and providing training and consulting. Some of the many SRE responsibilities are:

Providing data and visibility to teams and leadership on application performance

Guiding the development of SLOs

Driving the Incident Management and Analysis process

Steering the implementation of Change Management and Deployment practices

Engaging in service and architectural conversations

Recommending observability and alerting configurations

The SRE team benefits from experience across many domains including

infrastructure, platform, and distributed systems

capacity management, load and chaos testing

automation, observability, and configuration management

development and product experience

The SRE team is seeking motivated software and systems engineers with the experience to build, iterate on, and expand incident lifecycle, reliability, and resilience practices throughout Affirms Engineering organization and beyond.

What You'll Do

You will be responsible for owning and delivering quarterly goals for your team, leading engineers on your team through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems, and ensuring that everyone is supported throughout delivery.

You will support your peers and stakeholders in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with infrastructure, product management, developer experience & analytics by participating in ideation, articulating technical constraints, and partnering on decisions that properly consider risks and trade-offs.

You will proactively identify technical sol