Remote Engineering Manager, Resilience & Chaos Testing

Affirm; Miami (FL); 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 (ESPP)

Job summary

Affirm is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager for its Resilience Engineering team in Miami, Florida. This role focuses on ensuring the safety of production systems through load testing and chaos engineering. Responsibilities include leading a team to develop systems for safe experimentation and collaborating with cross-functional teams. Ideal candidates should have strong leadership skills and experience with reliability engineering, cloud-native environments, and distributed systems. Affirm offers a remote-first culture with competitive compensation, including a salary range of $200,000 - $250,000 per year.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading engineering teams in reliability or infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience with production load testing or chaos engineering.
• Strong understanding of failure modes in distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of systems for testing under stress in production.
• Define the vision for resilience engineering at Affirm.
• Build systems for safe production experiments.

Skills

Leadership in reliability

Production load testing

Chaos engineering

Distributed systems

Cloud-native environments

Programming (Python, Kotlin, Java)

Education

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

Tools

Gremlin

Harness

AWS

Kubernetes

Job description

Affirm is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager for its Resilience Engineering team in Miami, Florida. This role focuses on ensuring the safety of production systems through load testing and chaos engineering. Responsibilities include leading a team to develop systems for safe experimentation and collaborating with cross-functional teams. Ideal candidates should have strong leadership skills and experience with reliability engineering, cloud-native environments, and distributed systems. Affirm offers a remote-first culture with competitive compensation, including a salary range of $200,000 - $250,000 per year.