Resilience Engineering Manager: Production Testing & Chaos

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage for employee and their

Monthly tech and wellness stipends

Flexible time off and generous holiday

Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)

Job summary

Affirm is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Resilience Engineering team, focusing on production load testing and chaos engineering to ensure safety and reliability of production systems. You will build platforms and tooling for safe experimentation, while partnering with cross-functional leaders to integrate resilience validation into the SDLC.

The role emphasizes designing guardrails, end-to-end observability, and proactive reliability improvements through systematic testing of

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading engineering teams in reliability, infrastructure, or distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience with production load testing, chaos engineering, or large-scale system validation.
• Experience with cloud-native environments (AWS, Kubernetes) and observability tooling.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the vision for resilience engineering with a focus on production load testing and chaos engineering.
• Lead and mentor a team 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.

Skills

Proven experience leading engineering

Leadership

Mentoring

Problem-solving

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

Observability tooling

Chaos testing tooling (e.g. Gremlin/Harness)

Python

Job description

Affirm is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Resilience Engineering team, focusing on production load testing and chaos engineering to ensure safety and reliability of production systems. You will build platforms and tooling for safe experimentation, while partnering with cross-functional leaders to integrate resilience validation into the SDLC.

The role emphasizes designing guardrails, end-to-end observability, and proactive reliability improvements through systematic testing of