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Affirm Holdings, Inc.: Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Cost Engineering)
Observed on the employer’s careers system, last checked 2026-09-07.
- Employer
- Affirm Holdings, Inc.
- Location
- Remote Canada
- Category
- Infrastructure Platform Eng
- Posted
- 2026-07-30
- Careers system
- greenhouse
- Observed
- 2026-09-07
Role description
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At Affirm, we exist for the moments that matter—giving people a clear, predictable way to pay over time, with no hidden fees, no surprises, and no tradeoffs on what matters most. Engineering owns cost visibility and optimization across Affirm's cloud and AI infrastructure. We're the team that tells the business what it's spending, why it's changing, and what to do about it — from AWS resource waste and tagging strategy to the newer frontier of AI/LLM spend across the company's growing set of AI tools. We treat cost anomalies with the same rigor as production incidents: we've built a severity framework (mirroring Affirm's SEV0–3 incident model but mapped to dollar impact) with defined detection sources, TTD/TTR metrics, and escalation paths, and we operate a clear RACI with partner orgs — we own visibility and alerting, and partner teams own remediation (at times we may dig in deep and…
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