Manager, Software Engineering (Developer Environments)

Leadership & Strategy

Define and drive the vision for Developer Environments and inner-loop developer productivity at Affirm. Set technical strategy for your team on a year-long time scale, and tie it to critical, business-impacting projects. Lead and mentor a team of engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, and technical excellence. Partner with engineering leadership and stakeholders to align Developer Environments priorities with broader product, platform, and reliability goals.

Systems & Operations

• Own the design, scalability, reliability, and usability of the systems powering Affirm’s ephemeral developer environments used in both development and CI contexts.
• Improve environment provisioning, stability, and teardown workflows to enhance developer velocity and reliability.
• Drive measurable improvements to the developer journey (e.g., startup time, success rate, performance, debuggability, resource utilization).
• Implement monitoring, alerting, incident response processes, and operational playbooks to minimize downtime and developer impact.
• Collaborate with CI/CD and Test Platform partners to tighten feedback loops and ensure environments integrate cleanly with build/test workflows.

Collaboration & Enablement

• Work closely across engineering to ensure smooth adoption of Developer Environments tooling and best practices.
• Identify developer pain points and lead initiatives to improve productivity through tooling, automation, and self-service.
• Foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting and improving code review and design standards, and advocating for them beyond your team through writing and knowledge sharing.