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Senior Manager, Software Engineering (Data & Storage Services) Affirm Queens, Prince Edward Island, Canada The Data and Storage Services team is responsible for handling all of affirms data (OLAP and OLTP) requirements, encompassing everything from critical online checkout databases to batch orchestration, streaming infrastructure, eventdriven frameworks, BI and analytics tools. Our mission is to provide trustworthy, intuitive, and costefficient solutions for affirmers to secure, store, analyze, and transform data at exceptional scale. What Youll Do Lead a team of engineers and managers with empathy, fostering a highperformance, ownershipdriven, and inclusive culture to develop frameworks, systems, and tools for new affirm products. Oversee teams managing storage services, including relational and keyvalue 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 affirm hiring brands. Lead technical decisions, projects, and roadmaps within the Online Storage team, shaping affirms strategy for managing and serving relational and keyvalue storage workloads. Collaborate with peers, leadership, and stakeholders across platform engineering and product engineering organizations. Develop a multiyear roadmap to design and implement frameworks, services, and tools for new affirm products and business needs. Guide, tutor, and aid in the professional growth of junior and senior engineers within the team. What We Look For Solid leadership and interpersonal skills. 10+ years of experience managing multiple diverse and inclusive teams and delivering large crossfunctional 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, warmup/priming strategies, consistency models, backpressure, and thunderingherd protection. Experience operating lowlatency, highthroughput storage and caching platforms in production (e.g., Redis, Memcached, DynamoDB, MySQL/PostgreSQL/TiDB/Cockroach/Vitess, multiregion topologies, and crossregion replication strategies). Capability in mentorship, crossfunctional 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 opensource solutions. Bachelors degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience. Pay Grade: R Equity Grade: 09 Employees new to affirm typically come in at the start of the pay range. Base pay is part of a total compensation package that may include monthly stipends for health, wellness, and tech spending, and benefits (including 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents). Employees may also be eligible for equity rewards offered by affirm holdings, inc. (parent company). CAN base pay range per year: $206,000 - $256,000 Affirm is proud to be a remotefirst company! The majority of our roles are remote and you can work almost anywhere within the country of employment. A limited number of roles remain officebased due to the nature of their job responsibilities. Benefits Health care coverage affirm 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 familyforming expenses. Time off competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge. ESPP an employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of affirm at a discount. We believe Its 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. By clicking Submit Application, you acknowledge that you have read affirms Global Candidate Privacy Notice and hereby freely and unambiguously give informed consent to the collection, processing, use, and storage of your personal information as described therein. #J-18808-Ljbffr