Engineering Manager, Resilience & Production Validation

Affirm; Washington (District of Columbia); 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 seeking an Engineering Manager for the Resilience Engineering team based in Washington, DC. This role involves leading the development of systems ensuring the reliability of production systems through techniques such as production load testing and chaos engineering. Candidates should have proven leadership experience in distributed systems and hands-on abilities with resilience techniques. Affirm offers a remote-first culture with competitive benefits, including health coverage and stipends.

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, including latency and cascading outages.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Production load testing

Chaos engineering

Distributed systems

Cloud-native environments

Python

Kotlin

Java

Leadership skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a related field

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Job description

Affirm is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Resilience Engineering team based in Washington, DC. This role involves leading the development of systems ensuring the reliability of production systems through techniques such as production load testing and chaos engineering. Candidates should have proven leadership experience in distributed systems and hands-on abilities with resilience techniques. Affirm offers a remote-first culture with competitive benefits, including health coverage and stipends.