# Staff CIAM Software Engineer

**Company**: Affirm
**Location**: Remote Canada
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $181,000 - $241,000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

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.

This role is a hands-on engineering position inside Information Security, focused on designing and shipping core CIAM capabilities that protect customers and support growth.

You will build and operate backend services that power registration, login, authorization, and account lifecycle flows across B2C and B2B experiences.

**Responsibilities**

- Design, build, and operate core CIAM backend services that support customer registration, authentication, authorization, account lifecycle, and profile management for B2C and B2B platforms.

- Implement and extend identity standards such as OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, and SCIM in code, ensuring correctness, scalability, and clean integration patterns.

- Develop backend APIs and services in Python and Kotlin that expose identity capabilities to web, mobile, and partner applications.

- Integrate CIAM platforms with internal systems, including user data stores, messaging, fraud signals, and downstream customer platforms.

- Own secure authentication and account flows end to end, including MFA, step-up authentication, device binding, consent, and adaptive authentication logic.

- Automate CIAM infrastructure and deployments using Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipelines, treating identity as a core platform service.

- Monitor, debug, and optimize CIAM services for performance, resilience, and abuse detection in high-scale environments.

**Requirements**

- 7+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin.

- Extensive track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL, Spark and Kubernetes.

- Strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team.

- Experience delivering major features, system components or deprecating existing functionality in a system through the definition of a technical and execution plan.

- Strong experience designing and implementing CIAM systems, with deep, hands-on knowledge of OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, and SCIM beyond basic configuration.

- 5+ years of professional backend software engineering experience.

- Strong production experience in Python or a similar backend language.

- Experience designing APIs, automation frameworks, and distributed systems.

- Hands-on experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.

- Experience with GitHub-based development workflows and Buildkite or similar build systems.

- Experience with cloud-native development, preferably AWS.

- Hands-on experience extending and integrating CIAM platforms such as Okta, Auth0, Ping Identity, ForgeRock, or Azure AD B2C using custom code, hooks, and APIs.

**Benefits**

- Health coverage at no cost: We cover 100% of premiums for employees and their dependents.

- Spending stipends: Monthly stipends support your tech setup, and the ability to choose health and wellness options that are right for you.

- Time off to recharge: Flexible time off and generous holiday calendars help you rest when you need to.

- Own a piece of what you build: Our employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) lets you buy Affirm stock at a discount.

**Salary** CAN base pay range per year: $181,000 - $241,000

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- Kotlin
- AWS
- MySQL
- Spark
- Kubernetes
- OAuth 2.0
- OIDC
- SAML
- SCIM
- CIAM

### Nice to have
- Terraform
- CI/CD pipelines
- GitHub-based development workflows
- Buildkite
- cloud-native development
- Okta
- Auth0
- Ping Identity
- ForgeRock
- Azure AD B2C

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