Senior Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Compute Platform)

Affirm's Compute Platform team owns the EKS foundation for financial products. This role involves architecting and evolving the EKS platform, leading technical direction for cluster lifecycle, owning reliability of shared components, defining workload safety standards, building automation, establishing observability, partnering with teams, driving cost strategy, and mentoring engineers.

Deep EKS/Kubernetes internals, automating Kubernetes at fleet scale, workload reliability patterns, policy enforcement via OPA/Gatekeeper, Terraform and GitOps, observability, cross-functional collaboration, mentorship, 10+ years experience, 6+ years production Kubernetes, AWS cloud-native, Go/Python, standards enforcement, leadership.