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Senior Backend AI Platform Engineer

Affirm, Inc.

Build AI Platform services remotely from Canada using Python or Kotlin, distributed systems expertise, and production LLM experience. Support affirm’s global infrastructure.

As a Senior Software Engineer, Backend, you will design and launch governed AI systems for affirm engineers and production workloads. You will work with AWS, MySQL, Kubernetes, LLM gateways, agents, evaluation services, and observability. The team is moving AI workloads from pilots toward production inference and agents.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Own AI Platform projects from design through launch and on-call
  • Build gateway, runtime, and evaluation services for AI workloads
  • Develop identity, quota, routing, caching, and failover controls
  • Partner on security guardrails and tool-access identity models
  • Monitor systems through metrics, alerting, runbooks, and on-call

Requirements:

  • 4+ years designing and launching scalable backend systems
  • Experience with Python or Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes
  • Production experience with LLMs, agents, or AI frameworks
  • Ability to design significant, elegant, simple, extensible systems
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Bring backend engineering, AI infrastructure, and distributed systems experience to affirm’s remote Canada AI Platform team.

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