Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE & Platform Reliability) at Affirm
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At a glance
- Company
- Affirm
- Location
- Spain
- Work arrangement
- On-site
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Experience
- 5–10 years
- Working hours
- 40 hours
- Visa sponsorship
- Offered, according to the listing
- Posted
- Added to The Stack
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Updated 2026-11-05, from our data and official sources.
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About the role
Responsibilities:
- Own and deliver quarterly team goals; lead engineers through ambiguity to solve open-ended reliability problems.
- Define and drive SLOs, observability, alerting, incident response, post-incident analysis and runbooks.
- Lead incident management and change/deployment practices; recommend deployment and configuration controls.
- Design and run capacity planning, load and chaos testing to improve resilience and scalability.
- Build automation and tooling to reduce toil and improve operational readiness; support on-call and "keep the lights on" activities.
- Partner with infrastructure, product, developer experience and analytics on architecture, trade-offs and operational risk.
- Mentor engineers; raise code-review and design standards; deliver documentation and tech talks.
Requirements:
- 4+ years building and launching backend systems at scale using scripting/development languages (Bash, Python, Kotlin).
- Proven experience with distributed systems and technologies such as AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes.
- Strong background in SRE practices: SLOs, incident lifecycle, observability, capacity management, and automation.
- Experience with load/chaos testing, configuration/change management and deployment pipelines.
- Comfortable with participating in an on-call rotation and supporting production incidents.
Responsibilities
You will lead engineering efforts to improve system reliability, resilience, and incident response while mentoring team members. You will also collaborate with cross-functional teams to define SLOs, manage infrastructure, and drive operational excellence.
Requirements
Candidates must have 4+ years of experience in Site Reliability or Production Engineering and proficiency in backend systems at scale. Strong experience with AWS, Kubernetes, and scripting languages like Python or Bash is required.
Key skills
- Site Reliability Engineering — in 54 other listings on The Stack
- Distributed systems — in 342 other listings on The Stack
- AWS — in 802 other listings on The Stack
- MySQL — in 93 other listings on The Stack
- Kubernetes — in 585 other listings on The Stack
- Python — in 1200 other listings on The Stack
- Bash — in 107 other listings on The Stack
- Kotlin — in 251 other listings on The Stack
- Incident management
- Observability
- Capacity management
- Load testing
- Chaos testing
- Configuration management
- Change management
- Service level objectives
On The Stack (as of 2026-11-05)
Frequently asked questions about Affirm
Is this Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE & Platform Reliability) role still open?
It was posted on 2026-08-07. Listings more than 30 days old may no longer be active, so check Affirm's site before applying.
Does Affirm offer visa sponsorship?
This listing is marked as offering visa sponsorship. Eligibility rules are set by the employer, so check the details on Affirm's site.
Where is this role located?
The listing gives the location as Spain. It is marked on-site.
What skills does this role ask for?
The listing names: Site Reliability Engineering, Distributed systems, AWS, MySQL, Kubernetes, Python, Bash, Kotlin, Incident management, Observability, Capacity management, Load testing, Chaos testing, Configuration management, Change management, Service level objectives.