Manager, Software Engineering (Code to Environments)

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Key Responsibilities

• 1
  Own the design, scalability, reliability, and usability of the systems powering Affirm’s ephemeral developer environments used in both development and CI contexts.
• 2
  Improve environment provisioning, stability, and teardown workflows to enhance developer velocity and reliability.
• 3
  Drive measurable improvements to the developer journey (e.g., startup time, success rate, performance, debuggability, resource utilization).
• 4
  Implement monitoring, alerting, incident response processes, and operational playbooks to minimize downtime and developer impact.
• 5
  Collaborate with CI/CD and Test Platform partners to tighten feedback loops and ensure environments integrate cleanly with build/test workflows.
• 6
  Work closely across engineering to ensure smooth adoption of Developer Environments tooling and best practices.
• 7
  Identify developer pain points and lead initiatives to improve productivity through tooling, automation, and self-service.
• 8
  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.

Requirements

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, with 2+ years of engineering management experience (or equivalent people leadership experience).
• Proven experience leading engineering teams in infrastructure, platform engineering, developer productivity, or adjacent domains.
• Strong technical background in backend/infrastructure systems (Python or Kotlin preferred, but not required) and the ability to guide architecture and execution.
• Experience building and operating cloud-native systems (AWS, Kubernetes) and using infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Hands-on familiarity with containerized environments (Docker/Kubernetes) and CI/CD systems (e.g., Buildkite, Jenkins, GitHub Actions).
• Track record of operating services with a high reliability bar (monitoring, on-call, incident response, postmortems, continuous hardening).
• Strong communication and leadership skills, with a track record of mentoring and growing high-performing teams.
• Comfort balancing trade-offs between build vs. buy, speed vs. safety, and developer experience vs. operational constraints.
• This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field.

Perks & Benefits