Senior Security Engineer (Product Security Arch)

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. Affirm, Inc. proudly includes Affirm, PayBright, and Returnly. 

Affirm values information security as a critical part of the company’s continued success. Our mission is to make information security programmatic and cultural in Affirm, enabling the company to succeed in building honest financial products. The Security team posture increases security and reduces risk while securely enabling access to information for those who need it!

The Senior Security Software Engineer candidate will have extensive experience building and architecting software as part of a larger team. The ideal candidate can supervise the project design of experienced software and infrastructure engineers to improve the security of Affirm’s core applications.

What You'll Do

• Develop custom serverless Python applications to improve the scalability of the program through tooling and automation.
• Develop resources such as security libraries, reference architectures, and secure design standards to support Engineering teams in the development of secure products for Affirm.
• Collaborate with the greater Engineering team to develop secure deployment processes for Affirm’s applications and infrastructure.
• Develop and consult on authentication solutions across internal and external Affirm systems.
• Decompose large, cross-team projects into individual tasks. Manage scope across teams and drive toward project closure.

What We Look For

• Extensive experience using modern software delivery techniques to develop cloud-based services using Python and AWS serverless infrastructure.
• Experience with common front-end frameworks like React.
• Hands-on experience defining and implementing secure software delivery processes on top of Kubernetes infrastructure.
• Experience designing systems using standard authentication mechanisms, including SAML and/or OAuth2.
• Experience developing and deploying cloud services using Terraform.
• Experience administering database services and corresponding access using role-based access controls.
• Experience with Kotlin is a plus.
• Understanding of continuous integration / continuous deployment processes and tools.
• BS degree in related field or equivalent experience. MS degree in a related field or equivalent experience is a plus.

Location - Remote US

Grade: USA29

#LI - Remote

Affirm is proud to be a remote-first company! The majority of our roles are remote and can be located anywhere in the U.S. and Canada (with the exception of the U.S. Territories, Quebec, Yukon, Nunavut, and the Northwest Territories) unless the job indicates a different global location. We are currently building operations in Spain, Poland, and Australia.  Employees in remote roles have the option of working remotely or from an Affirm office in their country of hire, and may occasionally travel to an Affirm office or elsewhere for required meetings or team-building events. Our offices in Chicago, New York, Pittsburgh, Salt Lake City, San Francisco and Toronto will remain operational and accessible for anyone to use on a voluntary basis, subject to local COVID-19 guidelines.

All full-time jobs at Affirm (excluding interns and apprentices) are tied to a transparent grade-based pay range taking location into account. 

[Colorado Candidates] In accordance with Colorado’s Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, the grade for this position in Colorado is listed above. You can find the Colorado base pay range and benefits here.

If you got this far, we hope you're feeling excited about this role. Even if you don't feel you meet every single requirement, we still encourage you to apply. We're eager to meet people who believe in Affirm's mission and can contribute to our team in a variety of ways—not just candidates who check all the boxes.   Inclusivity:

At Affirm, People Come First is one of our core values, and that’s why diversity and inclusion are vital to our priorities as an equal opportunity employer. You can read about our D&I program here and our progress thus far in our 2021 DEI Report.

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