Affirm is looking for an experienced Infrastructure Engineering leader for their growing Cloud Cost Management team to develop frameworks, systems, and tools to create a culture of ownership and accountability for infrastructure costs, and to collaborate with Finance and Engineering leadership to define and meet ambitious financial targets, ensuring Affirm's scalable and efficient growth.
Requirements
- Expertise in managing large-scale, geographically distributed compute and data processing systems.
- Expertise in scaling technologies like Kubernetes, Redis, MySQL, and Kafka, in cloud providers like AWS.
- Deep experience in cloud infrastructure and a passion for leading technical teams and contributing to Open Source solutions.
Responsibilities
- Develop frameworks, systems, and tools to create a culture of ownership and accountability for infrastructure costs.
- Lead technical decisions, projects, and roadmaps within the Infrastructure team, shaping Affirm’s strategy for managing our multi-million dollar annual spend.
- Drive business and engineering metrics while promoting a culture of reliability, security, and productivity.
- Collaborate with tech leads, program managers, and product managers on tools, architecture, planning, and delivery of multiple concurrent projects.
- Work across the engineering organization and with internal and external partners.
- Guide, tutor, and aid in the professional growth of junior and senior engineers within the team.
Other
- Excellent leadership, collaboration, and interpersonal skills.
- 10+ years of experience in managing multiple diverse and inclusive teams and delivering large cross-functional technical programs.
- Proven track record in stakeholder management, ownership, and successful delivery.
- Capable of mentorship, cross-functional program execution, and individual contribution.
- Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills with a growth mindset.
- This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field
- Remote - US
