Senior Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Compute Platform)
- Pay: USA base pay range (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT) per year: $265,000 - $325,000
- Remote
- Location: US
- Senior staff
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The Compute Platform team owns the EKS foundation that Affirm's products run on, from cluster provisioning and lifecycle through the safety standards that keep thousands of workloads reliable at scale.
6+ years hands-on operating production Kubernetes at scale, ideally EKS on AWS
Lead the technical direction for cluster provisioning, upgrades, and teardown through standardized IaC (Terraform, Spacelift) and self-service workflows
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- Pay
- USA base pay range (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT) per year: $265,000 - $325,000
- Work mode
- Remote
- Location
- Remote US
- Who can apply
- Not stated — check the employer’s restrictions
- Posted
- Oct 30, 2026Greenhouse first-published date
- Last checked
- Nov 1, 2026
- Source publication
- Source first published: Oct 30, 2026 · 9:25 AM PDT
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- ATS updated (not posted)
- Oct 30, 2026 · 2:15 PM PDT
- First imported
- Oct 30, 2026 · 10:01 PM PDT
- Last checked at source
- Nov 1, 2026 · 9:02 PM PST
- Last seen at source
- Nov 1, 2026 · 9:02 PM PST
- Snapshot built
- Nov 1, 2026 · 9:06 PM PST
- Source status at collection
- open
- Board
- greenhouse:affirm
- Source ID
- greenhouse:affirm:8057948003
- Evidence field
- description
- Match rule
- alternative_in_list · 2 Go match(es)
- Department as supplied
- Infrastructure Platform Eng
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