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Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Capacity Modeling)

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Company

Affirm

Location

regina, Canada

Posted

June 01, 2026

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About This Opportunity

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 Capacity Modeling team ensures affirm can safely handle forecasted traffic—especially during peak sales events—by translating demand forecasts into concrete, testable capacity plans. They build and maintain statistical capacity models that map traffic inputs (e.g., checkout volume, app opens, batch/job activity) to resource outputs (CPU, memory, connections) and then convert those forecasts into recommended capacity settings such as pod counts, HPA ranges, and infrastructure sizing changes across regions and environments. The coverage of infrastructure resources includes not only Compute but also services such as ElasticCache, DynamoDB, AuroraDB, and more.

What You'll Do

  • You will be responsible for setting technical strategy for your team on a year-long time scale, and help ...