204K–290K USD / year
Manager, Software Engineering (Resilience Engineering)
Engineering managerRemote — United States
Published on 2026-10-27
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About this role
Lead Affirm’s Resilience Engineering team and define how production load testing and chaos engineering are used to validate system reliability. Build safe experimentation platforms and practices that help teams uncover and address weaknesses before they affect customers.
About the company
Affirm offers buy now, pay later financing that lets consumers split purchases into transparent installment payments at checkout. It partners with merchants to provide flexible credit options without late fees.
The team
Resilience Engineering team
Stack
AWSKubernetesGremlinHarnessPythonKotlinJava
What you'll do
- Set the vision and strategy for production load testing and chaos engineering.
- Lead and mentor engineers building resilience testing platforms and tooling.
- Design safeguards for production experiments, including isolation, approvals, and automated rollbacks.
- Build observability, traceability, and auditability into resilience experiments.
- Partner across engineering and infrastructure teams to adopt resilience practices and improve reliability.
What we're looking for
- Experience leading teams in reliability, infrastructure, or distributed systems.
- Hands-on experience with production load testing, chaos engineering, or large-scale system validation.
- Knowledge of distributed-system failure modes, including latency, partial failure, and cascading outages.
- Experience building or operating systems with safety guardrails, isolation, rate limiting, and auditability.
- Familiarity with AWS, Kubernetes, and observability tooling.
- Strong programming background in Python, Kotlin, Java, or a similar language.
- Strong communication and leadership skills, with experience influencing engineering practices across teams.
Nice to have
- Experience with a chaos engineering vendor such as Gremlin or Harness.
Benefits
- 100% subsidized medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents.
- Monthly technology, health, and wellness spending stipends.
- Flexible time off and generous holiday calendars.
- Employee stock purchase plan with a discount.