This role pays more than
90%
of similar roles. Most pay
$149,462–$206,450
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$225k
versus about
$178k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
Employer
About Affirm
Affirm is a buy-now, pay-later (BNPL) financial technology company that offers point-of-sale installment loans to consumers, allowing them to split purchases into fixed monthly payments with transparent terms. Industry: Financial Technology & Consumer Lending
Affirm currently has
60 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$195,000–$255,000
across 60 roles with salary data.
As a Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Infrastructure) on the Trust Infra team, you will enhance the security posture of infrastructure and services by embedding security into provisioning and deployment processes. You will manage critical artifacts including secrets management, authentication, authorization, cryptography, and certificate workloads within Kubernetes and cloud environments. Your daily responsibilities involve leading engineers through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems, collaborating with product and design teams on technical trade-offs, and fostering a culture of quality through code reviews and tech talks. You will build highly available distributed systems using Python or Kotlin, while leveraging AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes. Specifically, you will utilize Helm charts and operator patterns for security workloads. This role addresses the challenge of creating automated guardrails to enable safe, rapid delivery within complex cloud infrastructure.
What does a Software Engineer earn in Remote?
Median $204500 from 415 postings across 57 companies.