--- title: 'Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE & Platform Reliability) at Affirm' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-site-reliability-engineer-sre-platform-reliability-affirm-poland-ypec1wgzm8fz' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-06' --- # Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE & Platform Reliability) at Affirm - **Company:** Affirm - **Location:** Poland - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-08-07 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-06 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/affirm/jobs/7822393003 ## Job description 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. Site Reliability Engineering at Affirm is a small, yet crucial, team that helps our Engineering partners to “Operate What They Own” with excellence to protect their customers’ experience. SRE accomplishes this through defining frameworks and best practices for operating applications, building tooling, and providing training and consulting. Some of the many SRE responsibilities are: - Providing data and visibility to teams and leadership on application performance - Guiding the development of SLOs - Driving the Incident Management and Analysis process - Steering the implementation of Change Management and Deployment practices - Engaging in service and architectural conversations - Recommending observability and alerting configurations The SRE team benefits from experience across many domains including: - infrastructure, platform, and distributed systems - capacity management, load and chaos testing - automation, observability, and configuration management - development and product experience The SRE team is seeking motivated software and systems engineers with the experience to build, iterate on, and expand incident lifecycle, reliability, and resilience practices throughout Affirms Engineering organization and beyond. What You'll Do: - You will be responsible for owning and delivering quarterly goals for your team, leading engineers on your team through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems, and ensuring that everyone is supported throughout delivery. - You will support your peers and stakeholders in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with infrastructure, product management, developer experience & analytics by participating in ideation, articulating technical constraints, and partnering on decisions that properly consider risks and trade-offs. - You will proactively identify technical solutions and operational processes that strengthen incident readiness, response, and post-incident analysis. - You will support the operations and availability of your team’s artifacts by creating and monitoring metrics, escalating when needed, and supporting “keep the lights on” & on-call efforts. - You will foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting or improving code review and design standards for your team, and advocating for them beyond your team through your writing and tech talks. - You will help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example. What We Look For: - You have 4+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using scripting and development languages like Bash, Python or Kotlin. - You have a track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes. - You have meaningful experience contributing in or driving parts of the Incident Lifecycle process, enabling actionable insights that improve the quality culture, reliability, resilience, and system performance. - You have 4+ years working in a Site Reliability or Production Engineering team - You demonstrate curiosity with empathy, and strong opinions loosely held - You have experience defining a technical plan for the delivery of a significant feature or system component with an elegant, simple and extensible design. You write high quality code that is easily understood and used by others. - You have experience in making impactful changes in a large code base, and have developed a suite of tools and practices that enable you and your team to do so safely. - Your experience demonstrates that you take ownership of your growth, proactively seeking feedback from your team, your manager, and your stakeholders. - You have strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team. Total rewards We believe the people building honest financial products at Affirm should share in its success. That's why our total rewards are designed to support your health, growth, financial well-being, and future. In service of our mission, we reward employees through a combination of base pay, equity (from parent company), and comprehensive benefits. Base Pay Grade - N 308 000 zł  -  428 000 zł Base pay ranges and placement within those ranges are determined based on several factors, including role, experience, and job-related skills. In addition to base pay, all employees in this role are eligible to receive equity from the parent company each year. This means as Affirm’s parent company grows, employees have the opportunity to share in that growth financially. Equity Grade - 4 (awarded in US Dollars) Affirm Holdings, Inc. Equity Grade example Equity grade: 4 New hire equity: $32,000-$48,000 Annual Refresh: $10,000 Reward equity: $0-$150,000 Affirm also provides flexible spending wallets to all employees for technology and wellbeing related needs, which are reimbursable up to 1390 zł per month. In addition to your compensation, our comprehensive benefits are designed to support you and the people who matter most. Benefits include: - Competitive paid time off, paid public holidays, and additional paid Away Days to rest and recharge. - Comprehensive private healthcare through Lux Med's Platinum package. - A MultiSport card to support your health and well-being. - Learning and development programs to help you grow professionally. - Family healthcare support through Maven and parental leave support through Parentaly. - Mental well-being support through Lyra, including up to 12 confidential counseling or coaching sessions each year for you and your household members. - Financial well-being support through Northstar, with unlimited access to Certified Financial Advisors and planning tools at no cost to you. - Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) that foster connection and inclusion. - Eligibility for creative tax benefits, subject to applicable law, role, and company policy. Location - Remote Poland The majority of our roles can be located anywhere in Poland. **This job description is not a contractual document, and is not intended to have binding force.** #LI-Remote Affirm is proud to be a remote-first company! The majority of our roles are remote and you can work almost anywhere within the country of employment. Affirmers in proximal roles have the flexibility to work remotely, but will occasionally be required to work out of their assigned Affirm office. A limited number of roles remain office-based due to the nature of their job responsibilities. We’re extremely proud to offer competitive benefits that are anchored to our core value of people come first. Some key highlights of our benefits package include: - Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents - Flexible Spending Wallets - generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses - Time off - competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge - ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount We believe It’s On Us to provide an inclusive interview experience for all, including people with disabilities. We are happy to provide reasonable accommodations to candidates in need of individualized support during the hiring process. [For U.S. positions that could be performed in Los Angeles or San Francisco] Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, Affirm will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. By clicking "Submit Application," you acknowledge that you have read Affirm's [Global Candidate Privacy Notice](https://www.affirm.com/global-candidate-privacy-notice) and hereby freely and unambiguously give informed consent to the collection, processing, use, and storage of your personal information as described therein. ## About Affirm ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Affirm is a financial technology company that offers transparent, flexible buy now, pay later (BNPL) installment loans, a debit card, and a savings account, enabling consumers to pay over time without hidden fees. - **Entity Type**: Public (NASDAQ: AFRM) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States - **Founded**: 2012 - **Founders**: Max Levchin, Nathan Gettings, Jeffrey Kaditz, Alex Rampell ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Financial services – point-of-sale lending, digital payments, consumer banking. - **Target customers**: B2C (consumers seeking flexible payment options) and B2B (merchants of all sizes, from SMBs to enterprise retailers). - **Mission or purpose statement**: To deliver honest financial products that improve lives, offering transparency with no late fees or hidden charges. ## Products & Services - **Adaptive Checkout**: An AI-powered checkout flow that optimizes payment options for each consumer. - **AdaptAI**: A suite of AI tools for merchants to personalize offers and manage risk. - **BoostAI**: An AI-driven feature that dynamically adjusts installment terms to increase approval rates. - **Split Pay**: A BNPL product that lets consumers split purchases into biweekly payments. - **Affirm Card**: A Visa debit card that allows cardholders to pay over time at any merchant that accepts Visa. - **Affirm Money Account**: A high-yield savings account and debit card, held with Cross River Bank, Member FDIC. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: USD 5.17 billion (as of July 2026) - **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue – USD 3.22 billion (trailing twelve months as of Q3 FY2026). Total funding raised (including debt financing) – USD 9.57 billion. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Partners include Bed Bath & Beyond, Royal Caribbean, Stripe (UK), Google, Costco, and Backcountry. Investors include Morgan Stanley, Sixth Street, and CPP Investments. - **Growth Signals**: Nearly 27 million active consumers, 515,000 active merchants, and over $46 billion in Gross Merchandise Volume (LTM as of March 31, 2026). Revenue grew to $3.22B, and the company achieved positive net income of $52M in FY2025. Headcount increased 1.1% YoY to 2,132 employees, with active job postings up 103.8% year-over-year. ## Competitive Advantages - **Transparency-first model**: No late fees, no compounding interest – a key differentiator in the BNPL space. - **Machine learning underwriting**: Proprietary risk models that evaluate each transaction in real-time, reducing defaults while maintaining high approval rates. - **Large merchant network**: 515,000+ active merchants, including major retailers, providing broad consumer reach. - **Integrated ecosystem**: The Affirm Card and Money Account create a sticky financial platform beyond just checkout loans. ## Strategic Focus - **International expansion**: Currently operating in the U.S., Canada, and the UK, with recent partnerships (e.g., Stripe in UK, Royal Caribbean in UK/Canada) signaling further global growth. - **AI & personalization**: Continued investment in AI tools (AdaptAI, BoostAI) to improve merchant conversion and consumer experience. - **Affirm Card growth**: Driving adoption of the card as a daily payment method, with 4.4 million card active consumers. - **Capital partnerships**: Renewing and expanding capital partnerships (e.g., CPP Investments) to fund loan origination. ## Why Work Here - **Remote-first culture**: Most roles are remote within the employee’s home country, with a simple, transparent compensation structure. - **Generous benefits**: 18 weeks of paid parental leave for birth and non-birth parents, plus a 4-week return-to-work transition at full pay. 20 company-wide paid days off (“Away Days”) to collectively recharge. Flexible time off, mental healthcare programs, and “spending wallets” for tech, food, lifestyle, and family planning. - **Learning & development**: Exciting learning programs to level up growth. - **Employee community**: Active employee resource groups and supportive communities. - **Compensation**: Transparent, flexible, remote-first structure. Example: Senior Software Engineer median salary ~$207,029/year. - **Workplace ratings**: 3.8/5 on LinkedIn (638 reviews), with compensation rated 4.4/5, culture 3.6/5, and work-life balance 3.6/5. - **Engineering culture**: Heavy technical team (29% of workforce in engineering/technical roles), with strong talent from PayPal, Amazon, Google, and Stripe. ## Sources 1. [affirm.com/careers](https://www.affirm.com/careers) 2. [linkedin.com/company/affirm](https://www.linkedin.com/company/affirm) 3. 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