Cloud Engineer Jobs at Affirm with Visa Sponsorship
Affirm hires Cloud Engineers to build and scale the infrastructure behind its buy-now-pay-later platform, working across distributed systems, cloud architecture, and financial data pipelines. Affirm has an active sponsorship track record for this function, supporting candidates through H-1B, OPT, and employment-based Green Card pathways.
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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. The Data and Storage Services team is responsible for handling all of Affirm’s Data (OLAP and OLTP) requirements and encompasses the entire range from critical online checkout databases all the way to our Batch Orchestration, Streaming Infrastructure, Event Driven Frameworks, BI and analytics tools and systems. Our mission is to provide trustworthy, intuitive, and cost-efficient solutions for Affirmers to secure, store, analyze, and transform data at exceptional scale. We're looking for an experienced Engineering Leader to lead our growing Data and Storage Services organization, specifically our Lakehouse Analytics team. You will bring a wealth of experience in managing teams and success in delivering highly technical multi-quarter roadmaps. You will also need to be fairly comfortable with ambiguity and possess tools to work through tough deadlines, craft strategy and drive execution. You will be able to work with your teams, as well as product stakeholder teams, to define architectural/organizational future states that we can scale to in the future. You will need to make balanced calls that align with our forward-looking vision and current business & technology critical needs.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Lead a team of engineers and managers with empathy while fostering a high-performance, ownership-driven & inclusive culture to develop frameworks, systems, and tools for new Affirm products.
Oversee teams managing storage services including relational, key-value, and analytics storage infrastructure and tools at scale.
Understand and drive business and engineering metrics, promoting a culture of reliability, security, and productivity.
Collaborate with tech leads, program managers, and other engineering managers on security, tools, architecture, planning, and delivery of multiple concurrent projects.
Work across the engineering organization and with internal and external partners.
Provide leadership and growth opportunities to team members, mentor engineers, recruit, and represent Affirm hiring brands.
Lead technical decisions, projects, and roadmaps within the Lakehouse Analytics, Analytics Engineering and Privacy Engineering teams, shaping Affirm’s strategy for managing and serving orchestration workloads.
Collaborate with peers, leadership, and stakeholders across platform engineering and product engineering organizations.
In collaboration with tech leads, develop a multi-year roadmap to design and implement frameworks, services, and tools for new Affirm products and business needs.
Guide, tutor, and aid in the professional growth of junior and senior engineers within the team.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
Solid leadership and interpersonal skills.
10+ years of experience in managing multiple diverse and inclusive teams and delivering large cross-functional technical programs.
Proven track record in stakeholder management, ownership, and successful delivery.
Expertise in managing large-scale, geographically distributed compute and data processing systems, including data lake solutions and Workflow Orchestration frameworks.
Expertise in scaling frameworks like Snowflake, Spark, Flink and, Kafka on Kubernetes and cloud providers like AWS, leveraging storage systems such as AWS S3 and Apache Iceberg.
Capable of mentorship, cross-functional project execution, and individual contribution.
Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills with a growth mindset.
Experience in the data infrastructure domain and a passion for leading technical teams and contributing to Open Source solutions.
* This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
COMPENSATION
Pay Grade - R
Equity Grade - 15
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: $260,000 - $310,000
USA base pay range (all other U.S. states) per year: $232,000 - $282,000
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.
BENEFITS
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.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, Affirm will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
By clicking "Submit Application," you acknowledge that you have read Affirm's Global Candidate Privacy Notice and hereby freely and unambiguously give informed consent to the collection, processing, use, and storage of your personal information as described therein.
INTRODUCTION
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. The Data and Storage Services team is responsible for handling all of Affirm’s Data (OLAP and OLTP) requirements and encompasses the entire range from critical online checkout databases all the way to our Batch Orchestration, Streaming Infrastructure, Event Driven Frameworks, BI and analytics tools and systems. Our mission is to provide trustworthy, intuitive, and cost-efficient solutions for Affirmers to secure, store, analyze, and transform data at exceptional scale. We're looking for an experienced Engineering Leader to lead our growing Data and Storage Services organization, specifically our Lakehouse Analytics team. You will bring a wealth of experience in managing teams and success in delivering highly technical multi-quarter roadmaps. You will also need to be fairly comfortable with ambiguity and possess tools to work through tough deadlines, craft strategy and drive execution. You will be able to work with your teams, as well as product stakeholder teams, to define architectural/organizational future states that we can scale to in the future. You will need to make balanced calls that align with our forward-looking vision and current business & technology critical needs.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Lead a team of engineers and managers with empathy while fostering a high-performance, ownership-driven & inclusive culture to develop frameworks, systems, and tools for new Affirm products.
Oversee teams managing storage services including relational, key-value, and analytics storage infrastructure and tools at scale.
Understand and drive business and engineering metrics, promoting a culture of reliability, security, and productivity.
Collaborate with tech leads, program managers, and other engineering managers on security, tools, architecture, planning, and delivery of multiple concurrent projects.
Work across the engineering organization and with internal and external partners.
Provide leadership and growth opportunities to team members, mentor engineers, recruit, and represent Affirm hiring brands.
Lead technical decisions, projects, and roadmaps within the Lakehouse Analytics, Analytics Engineering and Privacy Engineering teams, shaping Affirm’s strategy for managing and serving orchestration workloads.
Collaborate with peers, leadership, and stakeholders across platform engineering and product engineering organizations.
In collaboration with tech leads, develop a multi-year roadmap to design and implement frameworks, services, and tools for new Affirm products and business needs.
Guide, tutor, and aid in the professional growth of junior and senior engineers within the team.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
Solid leadership and interpersonal skills.
10+ years of experience in managing multiple diverse and inclusive teams and delivering large cross-functional technical programs.
Proven track record in stakeholder management, ownership, and successful delivery.
Expertise in managing large-scale, geographically distributed compute and data processing systems, including data lake solutions and Workflow Orchestration frameworks.
Expertise in scaling frameworks like Snowflake, Spark, Flink and, Kafka on Kubernetes and cloud providers like AWS, leveraging storage systems such as AWS S3 and Apache Iceberg.
Capable of mentorship, cross-functional project execution, and individual contribution.
Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills with a growth mindset.
Experience in the data infrastructure domain and a passion for leading technical teams and contributing to Open Source solutions.
* This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
COMPENSATION
Pay Grade - R
Equity Grade - 15
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: $260,000 - $310,000
USA base pay range (all other U.S. states) per year: $232,000 - $282,000
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.
BENEFITS
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.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, Affirm will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
By clicking "Submit Application," you acknowledge that you have read Affirm's Global Candidate Privacy Notice and hereby freely and unambiguously give informed consent to the collection, processing, use, and storage of your personal information as described therein.
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Certify Cloud Skills for Financial Infrastructure
Affirm's engineering stack handles payment processing at scale, so AWS, GCP, or Azure certifications paired with experience in high-availability, compliance-focused environments signal direct readiness. Cloud credentials tied to fintech or regulated-data workloads carry more weight than general cloud experience.
Target Roles With Infrastructure and Compliance Overlap
Affirm operates under financial services compliance requirements, so Cloud Engineer postings that mention PCI-DSS, SOC 2, or data residency are your strongest sponsorship targets. These specialized roles are harder to fill domestically, which makes employers more motivated to pursue visa filings.
Search Affirm's Open Roles Through Migrate Mate
Filter Cloud Engineer openings at Affirm by visa type on Migrate Mate to identify which roles have active sponsorship attached. Focusing your application on listings where sponsorship is confirmed cuts out guesswork before you invest time in the process.
Clarify OPT Cap-Gap Coverage Before Accepting an Offer
If you're on F-1 OPT and your EAD expires before an H-1B takes effect on October 1, ask Affirm's recruiting team directly whether they'll support a timely I-129 filing. A cap-gap extension only protects your status if the petition is filed before your OPT end date.
Align Your Application Timeline With H-1B Registration
H-1B registration opens in March for an October 1 start. If you're interviewing at Affirm between January and March, flag your timeline early so the offer can be structured around the registration window. Missing the window means waiting a full year for the next lottery cycle.
Understand How PERM Fits Into Your Green Card Path
For EB-2 or EB-3 sponsorship, Affirm must complete a DOL PERM labor certification before filing your immigrant petition. The PERM process typically runs six to twelve months, so start that conversation once you're past probation and have a manager willing to initiate the process.
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Find Cloud Engineer at Affirm JobsFrequently Asked Questions
Does Affirm sponsor H-1B visas for Cloud Engineers?
Yes, Affirm sponsors H-1B visas for Cloud Engineers. The company has a consistent track record of filing H-1B petitions for technical roles, including cloud infrastructure and platform engineering positions. If you're interviewing for a Cloud Engineer role, raise sponsorship early in the recruiting process so Affirm can structure the offer and filing timeline correctly.
How do I apply for Cloud Engineer jobs at Affirm?
Apply directly through Affirm's careers site or find verified sponsorship-eligible openings on Migrate Mate, which filters roles by visa type so you can confirm sponsorship is attached before applying. Tailor your application to highlight distributed systems experience, cloud-native architecture, and any fintech or compliance-adjacent work, since those are the technical signals Affirm's engineering teams prioritize.
Which visa types does Affirm commonly use for Cloud Engineer roles?
Affirm supports H-1B, F-1 OPT, F-1 CPT, TN, and employment-based Green Card pathways including EB-2 and EB-3 for Cloud Engineers. H-1B is the most common long-term sponsorship path. TN is an option for Canadian and Mexican nationals in qualifying roles. OPT and CPT provide shorter-term authorization while a longer-term petition is being prepared.
What qualifications does Affirm expect for Cloud Engineer roles?
Affirm typically looks for experience with at least one major cloud provider such as AWS or GCP, infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or Pulumi, and container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes. Given Affirm's position in financial services, familiarity with high-availability design, data security, and compliance frameworks such as SOC 2 or PCI-DSS strengthens your application considerably over general cloud generalist experience.
How do I manage the timing between my visa status and starting at Affirm?
Timing depends on your current status. If you're on OPT, confirm your EAD end date and whether Affirm will file an H-1B petition before it expires to trigger the cap-gap extension. If you're transferring from another H-1B employer, Affirm can file an H-1B transfer and you can start work once USCIS receives the petition. Build at least two to four weeks of buffer between your last day at a prior employer and your start date to avoid status gaps.
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