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Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Observability)

Affirm is hiring for Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Observability) in Remote US. Remote, Staff level. First seen October 29, 2026; open as of November 12, 2026. Jobs taken straight from company career pages — no aggregator in between.

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Company
Affirm
Where
Remote US
Arrangement
Remote
Level
Staff
First seen
October 29, 2026
Listed via
Greenhouse

What the posting says

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’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…

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