Head of Resilience Engineering & Production Testing

Affirm, Inc.; New York (NY); Remote; USD 230,000 - 290,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% health premiums for employee and

Monthly tech setup stipends

Flexible time off

Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)

Job summary

Affim is seeking a seasoned Engineering Manager to lead our Resilience Engineering team, ensuring safety and reliability of production systems through proactive validation, including production load testing and chaos engineering.

You will drive platforms and tooling for safe production experimentation, partner with cross-functional leadership, and establish best practices for testing limits and failure scenarios in production.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading engineering teams in reliability, infrastructure, or distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience with production load testing and chaos engineering.
• Experience with a chaos engineering vendor such as Gremlin, Harness, or something similar.
• Strong understanding of failure modes in distributed systems, including latency and cascading outages.
• Familiarity with cloud-native environments (AWS, Kubernetes) and observability tooling.
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the resilience engineering vision and practices for production load testing and chaos engineering.
• Lead and mentor a team building platforms and tooling for safe production experimentation.
• Partner with infrastructure, product, and security leadership to embed resilience validation into the software development lifecycle.
• Establish safeguards, isolation boundaries, approval workflows, and automated rollbacks to protect real users.
• Develop end-to-end observability, traceability, and auditability for resilience experiments.

Skills

Leadership

Team mentorship

Production load testing

Chaos engineering

Distributed systems

Cloud-native awareness

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Gremlin

Harness

AWS

Kubernetes

Observability tools

Job description

Affim is seeking a seasoned Engineering Manager to lead our Resilience Engineering team, ensuring safety and reliability of production systems through proactive validation, including production load testing and chaos engineering.

You will drive platforms and tooling for safe production experimentation, partner with cross-functional leadership, and establish best practices for testing limits and failure scenarios in production.