Staff Software Engineer - SRE, Backend (Reliability Engineering)

[Applicants: Be among the first 25 applicants | Industry: Financial Services | Type: Full-time | Level: Mid-Senior level] 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.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.ResponsibilitiesSite 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. Some of the many SRE responsibilities are:Providing data and visibility to teams and leadership on application performanceGuiding the development of SLOsDriving the Incident Management and Analysis processSteering the implementation of Change Management and Deployment practicesEngaging in service and architectural conversationsRecommending observability and alerting configurationsThe SRE team benefits from experience across many domains including:infrastructure, platform, and distributed systemscapacity management, load and chaos testingautomation, observability, and configuration managementdevelopment and product experienceThe SRE team is seeking seasoned and 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 DoYou will be responsible for setting technical strategy vision for your team on a multi year-long time scale, and help your team tie it together with critical, business-impacting projects.You will collaborate across teams in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with infrastructure, product management, developer experience & analytics to ensure technical sustainability, risks and trade-offs are well understood and managed.You will act as a force-multiplier for your team through your definition and advocacy of technical solutions and operational processesYou take ownership of your team’s operations and availability by ensuring you have the right monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing and alerting in place to support “keep the lights on” & on...