Engineering Manager, Resilience & Production Validation

Affirm, Inc.; Victoria; Remote; CAD 181,000 - 241,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage for you and dependents

Monthly tech stipends

Flexible time off and generous holiday

Job summary

Affirm, Inc. is seeking a seasoned Engineering Manager to lead the Resilience Engineering team, focusing on production load testing and chaos engineering to protect production systems.

You will develop platforms and tooling for safe production experimentation, mentor engineers, and partner with infrastructure, product, and security leadership to embed resilience validation across the SDLC.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading engineering teams in reliability, infrastructure, or distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience with production load testing and chaos engineering.
• Experience with leveraging chaos engineering vendors such as Gremlin or Harness.
• Strong understanding of failure modes in distributed systems (latency, partial failures, cascading outages).
• Experience building or operating systems with strong safety guarantees (isolation, rate limiting, auditability).

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the vision for resilience engineering with a focus on production load testing and chaos engineering as core practices.
• Lead and mentor engineers building platforms and tooling for safe production experimentation.
• Partner with infrastructure, product, and security leadership to embed resilience validation into the software development lifecycle.
• Establish best practices for safely testing system limits and failure scenarios in production.
• Own the design and evolution of platforms enabling safe production load testing and fault injection.
• Ensure safeguards, including isolation boundaries, approval workflows, and automated rollback.
• Build end-to-end observability, traceability, and auditability for resilience experiments.
• Drive reliability improvements by identifying weaknesses through load tests and chaos experiments.

Skills

Leadership & team management

Production load testing

Chaos engineering

Distributed systems

AWS

Kubernetes

Observability tooling

Python

Java

Kotlin

Tools

Gremlin

Harness

Job description

Affirm, Inc. is seeking a seasoned Engineering Manager to lead the Resilience Engineering team, focusing on production load testing and chaos engineering to protect production systems.

You will develop platforms and tooling for safe production experimentation, mentor engineers, and partner with infrastructure, product, and security leadership to embed resilience validation across the SDLC.