Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE & Platform Reliability)

Affirm
Poland, Spain
Workplace: RemoteContractPLN 308,000 - 428,000 annuallyFunction: DevOps, Cloud & InfrastructureExperience: 4+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Ownership","Curiosity","Empathy","Collaboration"]

Own incident lifecycle and reliability practices across Affirm’s engineering organization, setting and delivering team quarterly goals while guiding engineers through ambiguous problems. Collaborate with product, infrastructure, developer experience, and analytics to shape technical constraints, SLOs, and risk-aware decisions. Build and monitor metrics to support production availability, improve incident readiness and post-incident analysis, and raise quality through code review and clear design standards.

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Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE & Platform Reliability)

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Job Summary

Own incident lifecycle and reliability practices across Affirm’s engineering organization, setting and delivering team quarterly goals while guiding engineers through ambiguous problems. Collaborate with product, infrastructure, developer experience, and analytics to shape technical constraints, SLOs, and risk-aware decisions. Build and monitor metrics to support production availability, improve incident readiness and post-incident analysis, and raise quality through code review and clear design standards.
Location: Poland, Spain
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Contract
Job Function: DevOps, Cloud & Infrastructure
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own and deliver quarterly team goals while leading engineers through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems.
  • •Collaborate with infrastructure, product management, developer experience, and analytics to shape decisions with clear technical constraints and risk trade-offs.
  • •Proactively strengthen incident readiness, response, and post-incident analysis through technical solutions and operational process improvements.
  • •Create and monitor metrics for team artifacts, escalating when needed, and supporting keep-the-lights-on and on-call efforts.
  • •Set or improve code review and design standards, advocate beyond the team, and help develop talent through feedback and guidance.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: PLN 308,000 - 428,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVisionRemote WorkLearning BudgetPaid LeaveEquity

Key Requirements

  • •4+ years designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale using scripting/development languages such as Bash, Python, or Kotlin.
  • •Track record developing highly available distributed systems using AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes.
  • •Experience contributing in or driving parts of the Incident Lifecycle process, producing actionable insights that improve reliability and resilience.
  • •4+ years working in a Site Reliability or Production Engineering team.
  • •Strong communication and the ability to provide ownership through feedback and high-quality, well-understood code.
Experience:4+ yearsDistributed systemsProduction engineeringIncident response
Skills:CommunicationOwnershipCuriosityEmpathyCollaboration
Tech Stack:BashPythonKotlinAWSMySQLKubernetesSLOsIncident managementChange managementDeployment practicesObservabilityAlertingCapacity managementLoad testingChaos testingConfiguration management

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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