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Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Observability)

Affirm · Remote US · Remote

USD 230,000–290,000 / year

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Company
Affirm
Location
Remote US
Work mode
Remote
Open to applicants from
Specific countries
Level
Lead / manager & above
Employment
Not stated
Field
Cloud & DevOps / Platform & infrastructure
Stated pay
USD 230,000–290,000 / year
Posted
2026-10-28 (18 days ago)
Visa sponsorship mentioned
Not mentioned
Listing source
Greenhouse

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About the 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…

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