Senior Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Compute Platform)

About this role

📋 Description Architect and evolve Affirm's EKS platform, driving strategy across cluster lifecycle, node Lead the technical direction for cluster provisioning, upgrades, and teardown through standardized Own the reliability of core shared components across the fleet (Karpenter, CoreDNS, VPC CNI, Kube Define and enforce EKS workload safety standards covering resource configuration, workload Build the enforcement and automation path that moves each standard from research and white-glove Establish the observability, baseline audits, and reporting needed to identify hot spots and 🎯 Requirements Deep EKS and Kubernetes internals expertise, including cluster upgrades, node lifecycle Demonstrated experience automating Kubernetes operations at fleet scale, from cluster provisioning Strong grasp of workload reliability patterns: resource tuning, probes, PDBs, topology and Experience designing and enforcing platform standards through policy (admission control Infrastructure as Code fluency with Terraform and a GitOps or pipeline-driven delivery model Observability instincts: defining SLOs, building metrics, logs, and alerting coverage, and running 🎁 Benefits 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents Monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending Equity rewards as part of total compensation package Flexible time off and generous holiday calendars Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)

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