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.
We are building the next generation of Identity and Access Management at Affirm. This is a software engineering role focused on evolving and extending our enterprise identity platform.
SailPoint & Auth0 are core systems in our environment. You will work directly within it, but your responsibility goes beyond configuration. You will design and build automation, integrations, and intelligent workflows that reduce manual operations and move us toward a highly scalable, AI-assisted identity platform.
If you are excited about combining backend engineering, cloud-native systems, CI/CD discipline, and AI-driven automation within the identity domain, this role is for you.
What You’ll Do
- Own and evolve our SailPoint & Auth0 based identity platforms, including workflows, integrations, and governance controls
- Design and build backend services and automation frameworks that extend SailPoint & Auth0 capabilities
- Develop AI-assisted workflows that interpret structured and unstructured inputs such as Jira tickets and generate safe, reviewable IAM changes
- Build human-in-the-loop automation systems for provisioning, role modeling, and privileged access management
- Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub and Buildkite to ensure safe, reliable deployments
- Improve test coverage, code quality, and release automation across the Identity platform
- Integrate with AWS services and other enterprise systems using secure, scalable APIs
- Use modern AI development tooling such as cloud-based AI services, Cursor, and model context protocols to accelerate secure automation development
- Partner with Security, IT, and Engineering to define the long-term architecture of identity at Affirm
Example problems you may work on:
- Building a platform that reads Jira tickets, uses AI to determine required IAM changes, proposes those changes for human approval, and safely executes them in production
- Designing event-driven identity lifecycle automation across HR, access governance, and privileged systems
- Creating reusable frameworks for secure, AI-powered access management workflows
- Establishing automated testing and deployment standards for identity infrastructure
What We’re Looking For