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

Define and enforce EKS workload safety standards covering resource configuration, workload isolation and blast radius, disruption tolerance (PDBs), Karpenter consolidation strategies, etc

Build the enforcement and automation path that moves each standard from research and white-glove onboarding through broad adoption to policy-enforced defaults for new workloads

Establish the observability, baseline audits, and reporting needed to identify hot spots and measure risk mitigation over time

Partner with cluster-user teams (checkout, batch, ML, analytics, DevProd, etc) to understand workload needs and shape the platform accordingly

Drive cost and capacity strategy across node scaling, bin packing, and EC2 instance selection

Mentor engineers across the Compute Platform teams and set the bar for operational excellence

Participate in the on-call rotation, triage and catalogue runtime K8s issues, and collaborate with SRE on production incidents

What we look for

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Compute Platform)

Responsibilities

Qualification

Required

Benefits

Company

Affirm

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