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Manager, Software Engineering (Infra Foundations)

Affirm· Infrastructure Platform Eng
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Hybrid (Canada)CA$181k - CA$241kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Engineering manager for the Infra Foundations team responsible for foundational AWS-based infrastructure, IAM, networking, and IaC/automation that underpins Affirm’s cloud environments.

Responsibilities

  • Define and drive the vision and multi-quarter roadmap, tying foundational investments to critical, business-impacting outcomes while protecting space for tech-debt reduction and reliability work
  • Lead and mentor a team of infrastructure engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, and technical excellence, and owning hiring, performance, and career growth
  • Partner with engineering leadership and stakeholders to align Infra Foundations priorities with broader infrastructure, platform, and security goals
  • Own the reliability and safety of the foundational layer: AWS account provisioning and bootstrapping, core networking (VPCs and interconnectivity), and human IAM access
  • Drive the team's automation charter, delivering frameworks that let other infra teams provision, update, and tear down complex stacks and whole environments safely on the existing IaC rails (GitHub, Spacelift)
  • Steward critical operational programs including AWS quota management and notifications, AMI patch management, and Ansible-based configuration management
  • Establish and hold the operational bar: SLAs for IAM requests, quota alerting thresholds, incident response for networking changes, and automated validation of provisioning and teardown
  • Partner with Security to enforce least-privilege IAM and ensure recommended permissions are adopted across teams
  • Drive smooth adoption of Infra Foundations frameworks and best practices through self-service tooling, documentation, and knowledge sharing

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of software or infrastructure engineering experience, with 2+ years of engineering management experience
  • Proven experience leading engineering teams in infrastructure, platform engineering, or adjacent domains
  • Strong technical background in cloud-native and infrastructure systems (AWS preferred), with the ability to guide architecture and execution across accounts, VPC networking, and IAM
  • Experience owning or leading Infrastructure-as-Code practices (Terraform, Spacelift, or equivalent) and GitOps-style workflows
  • Experience building and operating infrastructure automation that other teams adopt and depend on
  • Track record of operating services with a high reliability bar (monitoring, on-call, incident response, postmortems, continuous hardening)
  • Strong operational judgment and the ability to drive clarity, prioritization, and execution across a broad, heterogeneous surface area
  • Familiarity with least-privilege IAM models and partnering with Security on access governance
  • Strong programming background (Python, Go, or Kotlin preferred)
  • Strong communication and organizational leadership skills, with a track record of mentoring and growing high-performing teams
  • Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience

Skills

Required:AWSInfrastructure as CodeIAMProgrammingLeadership

Benefits

  • Health coverage at no cost: 100% of premiums for employees and their dependents
  • Monthly stipends for tech setup and health/wellness options
  • Flexible time off and generous holiday calendars
  • Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
Last updated Sep 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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