Engineering Manager, Resilience & Production Validation

Affirm; Minneapolis (MN); 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 (ESPP)

Job summary

Affirm is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Resilience Engineering team in Minneapolis. This critical role ensures the safety of production systems through validation techniques like load testing and chaos engineering. The ideal candidate has proven experience in managing engineering teams focused on reliability and distributed systems, along with hands-on knowledge of production load testing. Affirm provides competitive benefits and operates as a remote-first company with flexible working arrangements.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team building platforms for safe production experimentation.
• Design and evolve platforms for controlled production load testing.
• Establish monitoring and incident response practices for resilience validation.

Skills

Production load testing

Chaos engineering

Distributed systems

Python

Kotlin

Java

Cloud-native environments

Strong problem-solving skills

Strong communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a related field

Tools

Gremlin

AWS

Kubernetes

Job description

Affirm is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Resilience Engineering team in Minneapolis. This critical role ensures the safety of production systems through validation techniques like load testing and chaos engineering. The ideal candidate has proven experience in managing engineering teams focused on reliability and distributed systems, along with hands-on knowledge of production load testing. Affirm provides competitive benefits and operates as a remote-first company with flexible working arrangements.