Senior Manager, Software Engineering; Data & Storage Services

Senior Manager, Software Engineering (Data & Storage Services)

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The Data and Storage Services team is responsible for handling all of your organization’s Data (OLAP and OLTP) requirements and encompasses the entire range from critical online checkout databases all the way to our Batch Orchestration, Streaming Infrastructure, Event Driven Frameworks, BI and analytics tools and systems. Our mission is to provide trustworthy, intuitive, and cost‑efficient solutions for users to secure, store, analyze, and transform data at exceptional scale.

• 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 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 to team members, mentor engineers, recruit and represent the company’s hiring brands.
• Lead technical decisions, projects 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.
• Guide, tutor and aid the professional growth of junior and senior engineers within the team.

• 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, back pressure and thundering‑herd protection.
• Track record operating low‑latency, high‑throughput storage and caching platforms in production – e.g., Redis or Memcached, Dynamo
  
  DB and MySQL/Postgre
  
  SQL/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.

Pay grade: R
Equity grade: 09

Base pay range per year: $206,000 - $256,000

Affirm offers a total compensation package that may include monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending, benefits (including 100% subsidised medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents) and equity rewards from the parent company.

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. Occasional onsite work may be required for certain roles.

• Health care coverage – company covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents.
• Flexible Spending Wallets – generous stipends for technology, food, lifestyle needs and family expenses.
• Time off – competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to rest and recharge.
• ESPP – employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares at a discount.

We believe It’s On Us to provide an inclusive interview experience for all, including people with disabilities, and we provide reasonable accommodations if needed.

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Mid‑Senior level

Full‑time

Engineering and Information Technology