Staff Observability Backend Engineer
Affirm, Inc.
Lead Affrim’s observability platform remotely in Canada, combining backend architecture with telemetry expertise across high-volume distributed systems.
As Staff Software Engineer and technical lead, you will shape observability strategy while remaining hands-on. The platform processes 200+ TB daily across hundreds of services and 80+ Kubernetes clusters. Your work will advance wide events, log sampling, and instrumentation for agentic development.
Key Responsibilities:- Own telemetry pipeline architecture, reliability, performance, and cost
- Design log sampling strategies preserving incident investigation signals
- Shape observability practices for AI coding agents and reviews
- Define technical strategy and lead cross-functional projects
- Mentor six engineers through feedback, guidance, and example
- 8+ years designing and launching backend systems at scale
- Python or Kotlin experience developing distributed backend systems
- AWS, MySQL, Flink, Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, Kafka, or Terraform
- Experience operating high-volume metrics, logs, or traces
- Strong communication across global engineering teams
Bring scalable backend engineering, observability judgment, and technical leadership to Affrim’s remote Canada platform team.
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