Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Workload Safety) is open at Affirm (Remote US). The posting gives no salary; similar roles in the United States advertise a median of $193K. Posted on Oct 21, 2026, and still on Affirm’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
Define and evolve workload safety standards for Affirm's EKS fleet, such as CPU and memory settings, workload isolation and placement, tolerance for disruption, graceful termination to name a few Own each standard end to end: research and prototyping, white-glove onboarding for early adopters, self-service guidance for everyone else, and automation and policy guardrails that keep every workload compliant from day…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on Affirm’s careers page.
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