Senior Manager, Software Engineering (Online Storage)

Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest. The role involves leading the Data and Storage Services team, managing online storage solutions, and collaborating across engineering teams to drive technical strategies and execution.

Responsibilities:

• 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 Affirm 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 Affirm hiring brands
• Lead technical decisions, projects, and roadmaps within the Online Storage team, shaping Affirm’s 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 Affirm products and business needs
• Guide, tutor, and aid in the professional growth of junior and senior engineers within the team

Requirements:

• 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, backpressure, and thundering-herd protection
• Track record operating low-latency, high-throughput storage and caching platforms in production: e.g., Redis or Memcached, DynamoDB and MySQL/PostgreSQL/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