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About the role
We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer to be the technical lead for Observability. You’ll spend most of your time hands-on while defining the roadmap, driving cross-functional projects, mentoring a team of six engineers, and partnering closely with infrastructure and product teams. · You will own the architecture of Affirm’s telemetry pipeline, balancing reliability, query performance, and cost at 200+ TB/day. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Health coverage at no cost: We cover 100% of premiums for employees and their dependents
- Spending stipends: Monthly stipends support your tech setup, and the ability to choose health and wellness options that are right for you
- Time off to recharge: Flexible time off and generous holiday calendars help you rest when you need to
- Own a piece of what you build: Our employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) lets you buy Affirm stock at a discount
More about this role
At Affirm, we exist for the moments that matter—giving people a clear, predictable way to pay over time, with no hidden fees, no surprises, and no tradeoffs on what matters most.
The Observability team builds the platform every Affirm engineer relies on to understand the behavior and performance of our systems. Our platform ingests 200+ TB/day of metrics, logs, and traces from hundreds of services across 80+ Kubernetes clusters, and when a user's checkout fails, our data is how engineers find out why. Over the next year, we’re moving to wide events, with one context-rich event per request, improving the signal-to-noise ratio to make debugging faster. We’re also introducing log sampling and building observability best practices into agentic development and code review, so that AI-assisted code is well instrumented by default.
We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer to be the technical lead for Observability. You’ll spend most of your time hands-on while defining the roadmap, driving cross-functional projects, mentoring a team of six engineers, and partnering closely with infrastructure and product teams.
What You'll Do
· You will own the architecture of Affirm’s telemetry...
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