Manager, Software Engineering – Infra Foundations

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada.

📋 Description

• Define and drive the vision along with a multi-quarter roadmap for Infra Foundations.

• Link foundational investments to business-impacting outcomes while ensuring time is allocated for technical-debt reduction and reliability initiatives.

• Lead and mentor infrastructure engineers, taking ownership of hiring, performance evaluation, and career development.

• Collaborate with engineering leadership and stakeholders across infrastructure, platform, and security domains.

• Assume responsibility for reliability and safety concerning AWS account provisioning, bootstrapping, core networking, and human IAM access.

• Propel automation frameworks that empower infrastructure teams to safely provision, update, and dismantle stacks and environments using GitHub and Spacelift.

• Oversee AWS quota management and notifications, AMI patch management, and Ansible-based configuration management.

• Establish service level agreements (SLAs), quota alerting thresholds, incident response processes, and automated validation for provisioning and teardown.

• Collaborate with Security to implement least-privilege IAM policies and recommended permissions.

• Promote the adoption of frameworks and best practices through self-service tools, documentation, and knowledge sharing.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 7 years of experience in software or infrastructure engineering.

• At least 2 years of experience in engineering management.

• Demonstrated experience leading engineering teams in infrastructure, platform engineering, or related fields.

• Strong technical knowledge in cloud-native and infrastructure systems, preferably within the AWS ecosystem.

• Ability to guide architecture and execution across AWS accounts, VPC networking, and IAM.

• Experience in owning or leading Infrastructure-as-Code practices, such as Terraform or Spacelift.

• Familiarity with GitOps-style workflows.

• Experience in building and operating infrastructure automation that is utilized by other teams.

• Proven record of operating highly reliable services, including monitoring, on-call duties, incident response, postmortems, and ongoing security hardening.

• Understanding of least-privilege IAM models and access governance.

• Strong programming skills in Python, Go, or Kotlin are preferred.

• Excellent communication and organizational leadership abilities.

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent practical experience.

🏝️ Benefits

• Monthly stipends for health, wellness, and technology-related expenses.

• 100% subsidized medical coverage for employees and their dependents.

• Dental and vision coverage for employees and their dependents.

• Flexible Spending Wallets with stipends for technology, food, lifestyle needs, and family formation expenses.

• Competitive vacation and holiday schedules.

• Employee stock purchase plan allowing employees to buy Affirm shares at a discounted rate.

• Reasonable accommodations available during the hiring process.