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Demonstrates expertise in Kubernetes management, particularly with Amazon EKS, focusing on workload safety standards, resource management, and operational readiness. Proven ability to lead cross-team initiatives, mentor engineers, and analyze the impact of infrastructure changes on performance metrics.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Kubernetes ManagementAmazon EKSGo ProgrammingProduction DebuggingPolicy-as-Code
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesAbout the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Define and evolve workload safety standards for Affirm's EKS fleet
- Own standards end to end, from research and prototyping through onboarding, self-service guidance, automation, and policy guardrails
- Lead cross-team initiatives from design through fleet-wide rollout
- Mentor engineers and uphold standards for design, code review, and operational readiness
- Isolate workloads by criticality and resource profile
- Resolve stuck workloads and node lifecycle problems
- Determine safe operating limits for clusters and develop control plane scaling patterns
- Analyze workload resource profiles to guide EC2 instance type strategy and automate the analysis
- Measure standards' impact on availability, latency, risk, and cost to prioritize the roadmap
- Participate in on-call for Kubernetes runtime issues
- Collaborate with service, batch, ML workload, deployment, capacity, and SRE teams
- Track Kubernetes community best practices and adapt them to Affirm's needs
Requirements
What you’ll need- 5+ years of experience running Kubernetes in production at scale, ideally Amazon EKS across many clusters
- Deep understanding of Kubernetes resource management and scheduling, including requests and limits, OOM and CPU throttling behavior, affinity and anti-affinity, taints and tolerations, and topology spread constraints
- Solid grasp of pod lifecycle and disruption management, including graceful termination, pod disruption budgets, and node draining
- Experience enforcing configuration standards through admission control and policy-as-code, such as OPA Gatekeeper or Kyverno
- Proficiency in Go or Python, including production infrastructure software such as Kubernetes controllers, operators, or admission webhooks
- Strong production debugging skills and ability to turn recurring incidents into systemic fixes
- Track record of leading technical initiatives across multiple teams, driving adoption of shared standards, and mentoring engineers
- Experience quantifying infrastructure changes' impact on availability, latency, and cost
- Strong written communication
- Either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field
Benefits
Comp & perks- Equity rewards
- Monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending
- 100% subsidized medical coverage for employees and dependents
- Dental and vision coverage for employees and dependents
- Flexible time off
- Generous holiday calendars
- Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) with discounted Affirm stock
- Remote-first flexibility
- In-person onboarding experience
- Inclusive interview process with accommodations for candidates with disabilities
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Hard Skills
Kubernetes Resource ManagementPod Lifecycle ManagementConfiguration Standards EnforcementWorkload IsolationControl Plane ScalingWorkload Resource AnalysisIncident ResolutionAutomationSystemic FixesTechnical Initiative Leadership
Soft Skills
MentoringWritten Communication
Tools & Technologies
OPA GatekeeperKyvernoEC2Kubernetes ControllersKubernetes OperatorsAdmission Webhooks
Industry Keywords
Workload Safety StandardsOperational ReadinessCross-Team CollaborationBest Practices AdaptationResource Profile Strategy