Staff Software Engineer, Backend

CANADA🌐 Remote💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-29 → 2026-09-30

Core

Design, scale, and maintain build pipelines and continuous integration systems to optimize developer feedback cycles and reliability.

Role type

Staff Software Engineer (Backend Infrastructure)

Builds

Scalable CI/CD pipelines, build systems, and developer productivity tooling

Domain

Cloud infrastructure and developer tooling

Deliverable

infrastructure

Required skills

CI/CD system design, build system optimization, incident response, technical leadership, monorepo management, system architecture

Preferred skills

Open-source contributions, large-scale software development at leading tech companies

Technologies

GitHub, Buildkite, Artifactory, AWS, Kubernetes, Python, Kotlin, Java, Infrastructure-as-Code

Responsibilities

Own design and scalability of build pipelines; Optimize build times and test coverage; Implement monitoring and alerting for CI systems; Lead and mentor CI engineers; Drive strategy for developer productivity infrastructure

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with strategic leadership

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About Affirm

Financial Services3128San Francisco, California, USFounded 2012

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