Engineering Manager, Resilience & Production Validation

Affirm; New York (NY); On-site; USD 225,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care coverage for you and dependents

Flexible Spending Wallets

Competitive vacation and holiday schedules

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Affirm is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Resilience Engineering team in New York. This role is crucial for ensuring the reliability of production systems through methods like load testing and chaos engineering. Key responsibilities include mentoring engineers, establishing best practices for testing, and collaborating with infrastructure teams. The position offers a competitive salary range of $225,000 - $275,000 in New York, along with comprehensive benefits, including health coverage and flexible spending. Affirm promotes a remote-first work culture.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading engineering teams in reliability or infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience with production load testing and chaos engineering.
• Strong understanding of failure modes in distributed systems.
• Familiarity with cloud-native environments and observability tooling.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the vision for resilience engineering.
• Lead and mentor a team building platforms for safe experimentation.
• Ensure strong safeguards are in place for production testing.
• Work closely with engineering teams to execute load tests.

Skills

Leadership

Problem-solving

Chaos engineering

Production load testing

Distributed systems

Communication

Education

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

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Python

Kotlin

Java

Job description

Affirm is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Resilience Engineering team in New York. This role is crucial for ensuring the reliability of production systems through methods like load testing and chaos engineering. Key responsibilities include mentoring engineers, establishing best practices for testing, and collaborating with infrastructure teams. The position offers a competitive salary range of $225,000 - $275,000 in New York, along with comprehensive benefits, including health coverage and flexible spending. Affirm promotes a remote-first work culture.