Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Lake Analytics Platform)

Affirm
United States
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 173,000 - 255,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Communication","Collaboration","Operational ownership"]

Build and operate platform capabilities for Affirm’s Lake Analytics platform, enabling teams to securely build, deploy, and run data applications at scale. You’ll design integrations across CI/CD, identity and secrets management, APIs, and event-driven hooks, and strengthen governance with RBAC, masking, and secure views. Own observability, incident response, and automation that reduces toil, while contributing to roadmap work like semantic layer infrastructure and agentic, AI-native data tooling.

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Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Lake Analytics Platform)

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Job Summary

Build and operate platform capabilities for Affirm’s Lake Analytics platform, enabling teams to securely build, deploy, and run data applications at scale. You’ll design integrations across CI/CD, identity and secrets management, APIs, and event-driven hooks, and strengthen governance with RBAC, masking, and secure views. Own observability, incident response, and automation that reduces toil, while contributing to roadmap work like semantic layer infrastructure and agentic, AI-native data tooling.
Location: United States
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design and implement core platform capabilities for automated provisioning, deploy pipelines, access control, service lifecycle management, and reliability tooling.
  • •Build and maintain integrations between the platform and internal systems, including CI/CD, identity and secrets management, external APIs, and event-driven hooks.
  • •Operate secure data access and governance patterns across the analytical infrastructure using RBAC, managed-access schemas, dynamic data masking, secure views, and cross-database grants.
  • •Automate recurring support patterns (access provisioning, data pipeline failures, service health management, secrets management) to enable self-service and eliminate manual admin work.
  • •Improve observability and incident response by building telemetry, alerting, log infrastructure, runbooks, and participating in on-call coverage and production incident triage.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 173,000 - 255,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVisionPaid LeaveEquity

Key Requirements

  • •Hands-on experience operating a cloud analytical data platform (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery), including access control design, data masking/governance, compute management, and cost optimization.
  • •Experience building and operating containerized applications, including Docker image management, CI/CD pipeline design (Buildkite, GitHub Actions, or similar), and deployment automation.
  • •Experience building internal platforms, developer tooling, or self-service infrastructure that improves other engineers’ productivity.
  • •Comfort building system integrations and networking: REST APIs, OAuth/OIDC, webhook ingestion, secrets management, and identity/SSO patterns in a managed cloud environment.
  • •Proficiency in Python and SQL for reliable, maintainable backend platform services.
Experience:Data platformsAnalytics
Skills:CommunicationCollaborationOperational ownership
Languages:English
Tech Stack:PythonSQLSnowflakeDatabricksBigQueryDockerBuildkiteGitHub ActionsCI/CDREST APIsOAuthOIDCWebhook ingestionSecrets managementRBACOAuth/OIDCLLMSemantic layer

Company Brief

Affirm
Provides point-of-sale lending and buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) solutions for consumers and merchants, enabling installment payments, consumer financing, and embedded financial services through APIs and partnerships with retailers and platforms.
Industry: Lending
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2012
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