Engineering Manager, Resilience & Production Validation

Affirm; Raleigh (NC); On-site; USD 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% subsidized medical coverage

Flexible Spending Wallets

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Affirm is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Resilience Engineering team based in Raleigh, North Carolina. This role focuses on ensuring the reliability and safety of production systems using techniques like production load testing and chaos engineering. Candidates should have a strong background in engineering leadership, production load testing, and cloud-native environments. Affirm offers a remote-first work model with competitive compensation and benefits, ensuring flexibility for employees across the United States.

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 leveraging chaos engineering vendors.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the vision for resilience engineering at Affirm.
• Lead and mentor a team of engineers building platforms for safe production experimentation.
• Establish best practices for safely testing system limits in production.

Skills

Production load testing

Chaos engineering

System validation

Problem-solving

Cloud-native environments (AWS, Kubernetes)

Education

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

Tools

Gremlin

Harness

Job description

Affirm is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Resilience Engineering team based in Raleigh, North Carolina. This role focuses on ensuring the reliability and safety of production systems using techniques like production load testing and chaos engineering. Candidates should have a strong background in engineering leadership, production load testing, and cloud-native environments. Affirm offers a remote-first work model with competitive compensation and benefits, ensuring flexibility for employees across the United States.