Senior Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Compute Platform)
Affirm, Remote US +1
What you will do
As a member of the Compute Platform organization, you will collaborate with other teams - including Product, Infrastructure, Traffic, Cost & Capacity Engineering to:
- Architect and evolve Affirm's EKS platform, driving strategy across cluster lifecycle, node management, and shared cluster components
- Lead the technical direction for cluster provisioning, upgrades, and teardown through standardized IaC (Terraform, Spacelift) and self-service workflows
- Own the reliability of core shared components across the fleet (Karpenter, CoreDNS, VPC CNI, Kube Proxy, Metrics Server, etc) and the CI/CD pipeline that ships them consistently