Affirm · Canada
Skills: Python, Kotlin, SQL, AWS, Docker
At Affirm(https://himalayas.app/companies/affirm), we exist for the moments that matter—giving people a clear, predictable way to pay over time, with no hidden fees, no surprises, and no tradeoffs on what matters most.
The Observability team builds the platform every Affirm(https://himalayas.app/companies/affirm) engineer relies on to understand the behavior and performance of our systems. Our platform ingests 200+ TB/day of metrics, logs, and traces from hundreds of services across 80+ Kubernetes clusters, and when a user's checkout fails, our data is how engineers find out why. Over the next year, we’re moving to wide events, with one context-rich event per request, improving the signal-to-noise ratio to make debugging faster. We’re also introducing log sampling and building observability best practices into agentic development and code review, so that AI-assisted code is well instrumented by default.
We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer to be the technical lead for Observability. You’ll spend most of your time hands-on while defining the roadmap, driving cross-functional projects, mentoring a team of six engineers, and partnering closely with infrastructure and product teams.
What You'll Do
· You will own the architecture of Affirm(https://himalayas.app/companies/affirm)’s telemetry pipeline, balancing reliability, query performance, and cost at 200+ TB/day. · You will design log sampling strategies that significantly reduce volume and cost without losing the signal engineers need during incidents. · You will shape how observability fits into agentic development, so that AI coding agents and code review catch instrumentation gaps before code ships. · You will be responsible for setting technical strategy for your team on a year-long time scale, and help your team tie it together with critical, business-impacting projects. · You will collaborate across teams in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics to …tr…
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