Manager, Software Engineering (Developer Environments)

Role overview

Leadership and strategy

• Define the vision for Developer Environments and inner-loop developer productivity.
• Set technical strategy and connect it to critical business-impacting projects.
• Lead and mentor engineers while building a culture of ownership, collaboration, and technical excellence.
• Align team priorities with broader product, platform, and reliability goals.

Systems and operations

• Own the design, scalability, reliability, and usability of ephemeral development environments.
• Improve provisioning, stability, teardown workflows, startup time, success rate, performance, debuggability, and resource utilization.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, incident response processes, and operational playbooks.
• Integrate environments with CI/CD and test workflows.

Collaboration and enablement

• Improve engineering productivity through tooling, automation, self-service, and adoption of best practices.
• Set and improve code review and design standards through writing and knowledge sharing.

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience and 2+ years of engineering management or equivalent people leadership experience.
• Experience leading teams in infrastructure, platform engineering, developer productivity, or adjacent domains.
• Strong backend or infrastructure systems background with architecture and execution leadership capability.
• Experience with AWS, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, containers, and CI/CD systems.
• Experience operating reliable services with monitoring, on-call, incident response, postmortems, and continuous hardening.
• Equivalent practical experience or a bachelor’s degree in a related field.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with ephemeral or remote development environments, orchestration optimization, test automation, build engineering, or developer tooling.
• Familiarity with Terraform, Helm, or similar infrastructure tooling.

Compensation

• Canadian base pay is CAD 181,000 to CAD 241,000 per year.
• The total compensation package may include equity, monthly spending stipends, and benefits.

Workplace

• Affirm describes itself as remote-first, with most roles remote within the country of employment.
• Some proximal roles may occasionally require work from an assigned office, while a limited number of roles are office-based.

Benefits

• Benefits include fully covered health premiums, spending wallets, vacation and holidays, and an employee stock purchase plan.