Affirm
Manager, Software Engineering (Infra Foundations)
Remote Canada · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$181k-$241kDetected 14 days ago
PythonGoKotlinRailsGitAWSTerraformAnsiblePlatform EngineeringRESTIncident ResponseLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationMentoring
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61Sponsors, lottery-bound
Cap-exempt (no lottery)0
Sponsors this role90
Entry-level history0
PERM / green-card track0
Lottery odds (Level IV)94
Fits your clock70
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Affirm, Inc. obtained a prevailing wage determination for Data Scientists in San Francisco, CALIFORNIA on 2026-06-24. No matching green-card filing appears in our data yet. The determination expires in 16 days (2026-09-21), and a green-card filing must follow before then or the employer starts over.
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About the role
- 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.
- Base Pay Grade - P Equity Grade - 7 Employees new to Affirm typically come in at the start of the pay range.
Responsibilities
- Lead and mentor a team of infrastructure engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, and technical excellence, and owning hiring, performance, and career growth
- Partner with engineering leadership and stakeholders to align Infra Foundations priorities with broader infrastructure, platform, and security goals
- Own the reliability and safety of the foundational layer: AWS account provisioning and bootstrapping, core networking (VPCs and interconnectivity), and human IAM access
- Drive the team's automation charter, delivering frameworks that let other infra teams provision, update, and tear down complex stacks and whole environments safely on the existing IaC rails (GitHub, Spacelift)
- Partner with Security to enforce least-privilege IAM and ensure recommended permissions are adopted across teams
- Drive smooth adoption of Infra Foundations frameworks and best practices through self-service tooling, documentation, and knowledge sharing
- Experience building and operating infrastructure automation that other teams adopt and depend on
- Strong operational judgment and the ability to drive clarity, prioritization, and execution across a broad, heterogeneous surface area
- We are happy to provide reasonable accommodations to candidates in need of individualized support during the hiring process.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience
- Affirmers in proximal roles have the flexibility to work remotely, but will occasionally be required to work out of their assigned Affirm office.
Nice to have
- Strong technical background in cloud-native and infrastructure systems (AWS preferred), with the ability to guide architecture and execution across accounts, VPC networking, and IAM
- Strong programming background (Python, Go, or Kotlin preferred)
Skills
- Ensuring that our infrastructure is accessible to all engineers is critical to the success of the business.
Compensation
- Employees new to Affirm typically come in at the start of the pay range.
- Affirm focuses on providing a simple and transparent pay structure which is based on a variety of factors, including location, experience and job-related skills.
- Base pay is part of a total compensation package that may include monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending, and benefits (including 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents).
- CAN base pay range per year: $ 181,000 - $ 241,000 CAD.
Benefits
- Define and drive the vision and multi-quarter roadmap, tying foundational investments to critical, business-impacting outcomes while protecting space for tech-debt reduction and reliability work
- 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
- An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount
- In addition, the employees may be eligible for equity rewards offered by Affirm Holdings, Inc. (parent company).
- We're extremely proud to offer competitive benefits that are anchored to our core value of people come first.
- Some key highlights of our benefits package include:
This listing is sourced directly from Affirm's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.