Engineering Manager, Resilience & Production Validation

Affirm; Madison (WI); On-site; USD 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care coverage

Flexible Spending Wallets

Competitive vacation and holiday schedules

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Affirm is looking for a seasoned Engineering Manager to lead their Resilience Engineering team in Madison, Wisconsin. This role focuses on ensuring safety and reliability through production load testing and chaos engineering. You will lead engineers developing systems for safe testing under stress conditions. The position offers a salary range of $200,000 to $250,000 per year, plus generous benefits including health care coverage and flexible spending stipends.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading engineering teams in reliability, infrastructure, or distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience with production load testing or chaos engineering.
• Strong understanding of failure modes in distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the vision for resilience engineering.
• Lead and mentor a team of engineers on safe production experimentation.
• Ensure strong safeguards are in place for resilience validation.

Skills

Leadership

Problem-solving skills

Strong communication

Chaos engineering

Production load testing

Cloud-native environments

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Job description

Affirm is looking for a seasoned Engineering Manager to lead their Resilience Engineering team in Madison, Wisconsin. This role focuses on ensuring safety and reliability through production load testing and chaos engineering. You will lead engineers developing systems for safe testing under stress conditions. The position offers a salary range of $200,000 to $250,000 per year, plus generous benefits including health care coverage and flexible spending stipends.