181K–241K CAD / year
Manager, Software Engineering (Resilience Engineering)
Engineering managerRemote — Canada
Published on 2026-10-27
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About this role
Lead Affirm’s Resilience Engineering team in building practices and platforms for safe production load testing and chaos engineering. The role focuses on finding and mitigating system weaknesses before they affect users, while embedding resilience validation across engineering teams.
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.
What you'll do
- Set the vision and best practices for production load testing and chaos engineering
- Lead and mentor engineers building resilience testing platforms and tools
- Design safe production experiments with isolation, approval workflows, and automated rollback
- Build observability, traceability, and auditability for resilience experiments
- Partner across infrastructure, product, security, and engineering to improve system reliability
- Establish monitoring, alerting, and incident response practices for proactive validation
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
- Experience with a chaos engineering vendor such as Gremlin or Harness
- Understanding of distributed-system failure modes, including latency, partial failures, and cascading outages
- Experience building or operating systems with safety guardrails and auditability
- Familiarity with AWS, Kubernetes, and observability tools
- Strong programming background in Python, Kotlin, Java, or similar
- Strong communication and leadership skills, with experience influencing engineering practices
Nice to have
- Experience with Gremlin, Harness, or a similar chaos engineering platform
Benefits
- 100% subsidized medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents
- Monthly technology, health, and wellness spending stipends
- Flexible time off and generous holidays
- Employee stock purchase plan with a discount
- Potential equity rewards