IT & Software

Senior EKS Platform Engineer Workload Safety

Affirm, Inc.

Kelowna · Regional District Of Central Okanagan, Ontario, Quebec, Alberta, Metro Vancouver Regional District, Capitale Nationale, Division No. 11, Ontario, Peel Region, Moncton Parish · Canada

Strengthen Affirm’s Amazon EKS platform remotely from Canada through workload isolation, cluster scaling, and Kubernetes operational excellence. Help protect critical paths such as checkout.

This senior platform engineering role sets standards for services, batch jobs, and ML workloads across more than 85 EKS clusters. You will determine safe cluster limits, analyze resource profiles, and develop control plane scaling patterns. You will also turn recurring runtime failures into systemic fixes.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Isolate workloads by criticality and resource profile
  • Determine safe operating limits for each cluster
  • Develop control plane scaling patterns for bursty workloads
  • Analyze CPU, memory, disk, and network resource profiles
  • Participate in on-call for Kubernetes runtime issues

Requirements:

  • Five-plus years running Kubernetes in production at scale
  • Experience with Amazon EKS across many clusters
  • Strong understanding of pod lifecycle and disruption management
  • Production debugging skills and systemic incident-fixing ability
  • Experience quantifying availability, latency, and cost impacts

Bring EKS platform engineering, Kubernetes scheduling, and resource analysis skills to improve workload safety across Affirm’s Canadian fleet.

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Reference: WJ-4703_9853461

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