Senior Manager, Software Engineering (Online Storage)

What You’ll Do

• Lead a team of engineers and managers with empathy while fostering a high-performance, ownership-driven & inclusive culture to develop frameworks, systems, and tools for new Affirm products.
• Oversee teams managing storage services including relational and key-value storage infrastructure and tools at scale.
• Understand and drive business and engineering metrics, promoting a culture of reliability, security, and productivity.
• Collaborate with tech leads, program managers, and other engineering managers on security, tools, architecture, planning, and delivery of multiple concurrent projects.
• Work across the engineering organization and with internal and external partners.
• Provide leadership and growth opportunities to team members, mentor engineers, recruit, and represent Affirm hiring brands.
• Lead technical decisions, projects, and roadmaps within the Online Storage team, shaping Affirm’s strategy for managing and serving relational and key-value storage workloads.
• Collaborate with peers, leadership, and stakeholders across platform engineering and product engineering organizations.
• Develop a multi-year roadmap to design and implement frameworks, services, and tools for new Affirm products and business needs.
• Guide, tutor, and aid in the professional growth of junior and senior engineers within the team.

What We Look For

• Solid leadership and interpersonal skills.
• 10+ years of experience in managing multiple diverse and inclusive teams and delivering large cross-functional technical programs.
• Proven track record in stakeholder management, ownership, and successful delivery.
• Depth in cache architecture and lifecycle management: tiered cache design, eviction and TTL policies, warm-up/priming strategies, consistency models, backpressure, and thundering-herd protection.
• Track record operating low-latency, high-throughput storage and caching platforms in production: e.g., Redis or Memcached, DynamoDB and MySQL/PostgreSQL/TiDB/Cockroach/Vitess, multi-region topologies, and cross-region replication strategies.
• Capable of mentorship, cross-functional project execution, and individual contribution.
• Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills with a growth mindset.
• Experience in the data infrastructure domain and a passion for leading technical teams and contributing to Open Source solutions.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

Pay

Pay Grade - R Equity Grade - 15 Employees new to Affirm typically come in at the start of the pay range. Affirm focuses on providing a simple and transparent pay structure which is based on a variety of factors, including location, experience and job-related skills.

USA base pay range (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT) per year: $265,000 - $325,000 USA base pay range (all other U.S. states) per year: $236,000 - 296,000