Senior Manager, Software Engineering; Data & Storage Services

Senior Manager, Software Engineering (Data & Storage Services)

Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without hidden fees or compounding interest.

The Data and Storage Services team handles all of Affirm’s data (OLAP and OLTP) requirements, ranging from critical online checkout databases to batch orchestration, streaming infrastructure, event‑driven frameworks, BI and analytics tools. Our mission is to provide trustworthy, intuitive, and cost‑efficient solutions for consumers to secure, store, analyze, and transform data at exceptional scale.

We’re looking for an experienced engineering leader to head our growing Data and Storage Services organization, specifically the Online Storage team. You will bring a wealth of experience managing teams and delivering highly technical multi‑quarter roadmaps, and you will be comfortable navigating ambiguity, meeting tough deadlines, crafting strategy, and driving execution.

• Lead a team of engineers and managers with empathy while fostering a high‑performance, ownership‑driven and inclusive culture to develop frameworks, systems, and tools for new products.
• Oversee teams managing storage services, including relational and key‑value storage infrastructure and tools at scale.
• Understand and drive business and engineering metrics, promoting a culture of reliability, security, and productivity.
• Collaborate with tech leads, program managers, and other engineering managers on security, tools, architecture, planning, and delivery of multiple concurrent projects.
• Work across the engineering organization and with internal and external partners.
• Provide leadership and growth opportunities, mentor engineers, recruit, and represent the company hiring brand.
• Lead technical decisions and roadmaps within the Online Storage team, shaping the strategy for managing and serving relational and key‑value storage workloads.
• Collaborate with peers, leadership, and stakeholders across platform engineering and product engineering organizations.
• In collaboration with tech leads, develop a multi‑year roadmap to design and implement frameworks, services, and tools for new products and business needs.

• Solid leadership and interpersonal skills.
• 10+ years of experience managing diverse, 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, including tiered cache design, eviction and TTL policies, warm‑up/priming strategies, consistency models, back pressure, and thundering‑herd protection.
• Track record operating low‑latency, high‑throughput storage and caching platforms in production (e.g., Redis, Memcached, Dynamo
  
  DB, MySQL/Postgre
  
  SQL/TiDB/Cockroach/Vitess).
• 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 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 – the company covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents.
• Flexible Spending Wallets – generous stipends for technology, food, various lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses.
• Time off – competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to rest and recharge.
• ESPP – an employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares at a discount.

Affirm is proud to be a remote‑first company. The majority of roles are remote and you can work almost anywhere within the country of employment.

We believe it’s on us to provide an inclusive interview experience for all, including people with disabilities. We are happy to provide reasonable accommodations to candidates in need of individualized support during the hiring process.

Affirm is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, protected class as required under applicable law, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.