Engineering Manager, Resilience & Reliability

Affirm, Inc.; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); A distancia; USD 204.000 - 290.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Health coverage for employees and deps

Monthly tech stipends

Flexible time off

ESPP — stock purchase plan

Descripción de la vacante

Affim is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Resilience Engineering team, ensuring safe testing of production systems through load testing and chaos experiments. You will shape platforms and tooling, partner with cross-functional leaders, and embed resilience validation across the software lifecycle.

You will build guardrails, observability, and rollback capabilities to protect real users while improving reliability and fault tolerance across distributed systems.

Formación

• Proven experience leading engineering teams in reliability, infrastructure or distributed systems.
• Hands-on with production load testing, chaos engineering, or large-scale system validation.
• Experience with cloud-native environments (AWS, Kubernetes) and observability tooling.
• Strong programming background and ability to balance long-term resilience with business needs.

Responsabilidades

• Define and drive the resilience engineering vision, focusing on production load testing and chaos engineering.
• Lead and mentor engineers building platforms and tooling for safe production experimentation.
• Partner with infrastructure, product, and security leadership to embed resilience validation in SDLC.
• Establish safeguards, guardrails, monitoring, and incident response for resilience tests.

Conocimientos

Leadership experience

Production load testing

Chaos engineering

Distributed systems

Cloud-native environments (AWS, K8s)

Programming background (Python, Kotlin

Educación

Bachelor’s degree in a related field

Herramientas

Gremlin

Harness

Descripción del empleo

Affim is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Resilience Engineering team, ensuring safe testing of production systems through load testing and chaos experiments. You will shape platforms and tooling, partner with cross-functional leaders, and embed resilience validation across the software lifecycle.

You will build guardrails, observability, and rollback capabilities to protect real users while improving reliability and fault tolerance across distributed systems.