Senior Manager, Software Engineering (Data & Storage Services)

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Key Responsibilities

• 1
  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.
• 2
  Oversee teams managing storage services including relational and key-value storage infrastructure and tools at scale.
• 3
  Understand and drive business and engineering metrics, promoting a culture of reliability, security, and productivity.
• 4
  Collaborate with tech leads, program managers, and other engineering managers on security, tools, architecture, planning, and delivery of multiple concurrent projects.
• 5
  Work across the engineering organization and with internal and external partners.
• 6
  Provide leadership and growth opportunities to team members, mentor engineers, recruit, and represent Affirm hiring brands.
• 7
  Lead technical decisions, projects, and roadmaps within theOnline Storage team, shaping Affirm’s strategy for managing and serving relational and key-value storage workloads.
• 8
  Collaborate with peers, leadership, and stakeholders across platform engineering and product engineering organizations.
• 9
  In collaboration with tech leads, develop a multi year roadmap to design and implement frameworks, services, and tools for new Affirm products and business needs.
• 10
  Guide, tutor, and aid in the professional growth of junior and senior engineers within the team.

Requirements

• 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.
• Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents
• Flexible Spending Wallets - generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses
• Time off - competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge
• ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount

Perks & Benefits