Engineering Manager, Resilience & Production Validation

Affirm; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 225,000 - 275,000; 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 experienced Engineering Manager to lead the Resilience Engineering team in San Jose, California. This role focuses on ensuring the safety and reliability of production systems through production load testing and chaos engineering. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in managing reliability and distributed systems while possessing excellent leadership and communication skills. The position offers a flexible remote-first work environment, competitive benefits, and a salary range of $225,000 to $275,000 annually for California-based roles.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Define and drive vision for resilience engineering.
• Lead and mentor a team in building platforms for safe production experimentation.
• Ensure strong safeguards are in place for testing.
• Drive reliability improvements through systematic identification of weaknesses.

Skills

Production load testing

Chaos engineering

Distributed systems

Leadership

Problem-solving skills

Programming (Python, Kotlin, Java)

Communication skills

Education

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

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Job description

Affirm is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead the Resilience Engineering team in San Jose, California. This role focuses on ensuring the safety and reliability of production systems through production load testing and chaos engineering. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in managing reliability and distributed systems while possessing excellent leadership and communication skills. The position offers a flexible remote-first work environment, competitive benefits, and a salary range of $225,000 to $275,000 annually for California-based roles.