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The Release Engineering team is part of Affirm’s Developer Productivity team and plays a critical role in ensuring that our services are built, tested, and delivered to production with speed, reliability, and safety. We design and operate release operations and processes that empower hundreds of engineers to confidently ship changes into the distributed systems that power Affirm’s financial products. Our mission is to establish world-class release practices and tooling, enabling engineering teams to deliver features quickly while maintaining Affirm’s high bar for quality, compliance, and availability.
As a Release Engineering Manager, you will lead a team of engineers and coordinators that run the pipelines, orchestration frameworks, and automation that power every release across the company. You will be responsible for scaling tooling and processes that underpin Affirm’s global platform while collaborating across engineering, product, and compliance teams to continuously improve how we deliver software at scale. This is a hands-on leadership role where you will shape technical strategy, grow talent, and raise the bar for how we release distributed systems at Affirm.
What You’ll Do- Lead a team responsible for the end-to-end operation of releases at scale, ensuring services are delivered safely, reliably, and on time
- Define and execute the vision and roadmap for Release Ops, balancing speed, compliance, and stability across Affirm’s distributed systems
- Drive operational excellence by continuously improving release processes, incident response practices, and reliability during deployments
- Partner with engineering and product leadership to identify needs related to deployments and developer productivity
- Drive the strategic roadmap for expanding deployment safety and tooling by collaborating closely with CI/CD and other Developer Productivity teams
- Build and evolve release tooling, orchestration, and observability systems that reduce friction and eliminate risk in shipping software
- Set and uphold quality and compliance guardrails that meet both regulatory requirements and internal standards
- Coach, mentor, and develop engineers and release coordinators, fostering a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and innovation
- 7+ years of software engineering experience, with 2+ years in engineering management preferably within DevOps, Release Engineering, or Infrastructure
- Demonstrated success in operating releases at scale, with proven ability to balance release velocity, reliability, and compliance
- Strong technical background in distributed systems and cloud-native infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, etc.)
- Experience building and scaling release operations, CI/CD pipelines, and service orchestration frameworks
- Track record of leading cross-functional initiatives that improved release quality, developer experience, and system reliability
- Ability to balance deep technical insight with people leadership, guiding architecture decisions while mentoring engineers
- Excellent communication skills, capable of aligning diverse stakeholders on release priorities and outcomes
Base Pay Grade - P
Equity Grade - 13
Employees new to Affirm typically come in at the start of the pay range. Affirm focuses on providing a simple and transparent pay structure which is based on a variety of factors, including location, experience and job-related skills.
Base pay is part of a total compensation package that may include equity rewards, monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending, and benefits (including 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents.)
USA base pay range (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT) per year: $225,000 - $275,000
USA base pay range (all other U.S. states) per year: $200,000 - $250,000
Location: Remote - US
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Affirm is proud to be a remote-first company! The majority of our roles are remote and you can work almost anywhere within the country of employment. Affirmers in proximal roles have the flexibility to work remotely, but will occasionally be required to work out of their assigned Affirm office. A limited number of roles remain office-based due to the nature of their job responsibilities.
We’re extremely proud to offer competitive benefits that are anchored to our core value of people come first. Some key highlights of our benefits package include:
- Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents
- Flexible Spending Wallets - generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses
- Time off - competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge
- ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount
We believe It’s On Us to provide an inclusive interview experience for all, including people with disabilities. We are happy to provide reasonable accommodations to candidates in need of individualized support during the hiring process.
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