Remote Engineering Manager, Resilience & Chaos Testing

Affirm, Inc.; Nashville (TN); Remote; USD 204,000 - 264,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage for you and dependents

Monthly stipends for tech setup

Flexible time off and holidays

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Affim is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Resilience Engineering team, focusing on production load testing and chaos engineering as core practices. You will empower engineers to safely stress-test systems in production while preventing customer impact.

You will guide architecture and tooling for safe experimentation, ensuring observability, traceability, and auditability across resilience tests. Remote-first with flexible in-person onboarding, competitive base pay, and equity are

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading engineering teams in reliability, infrastructure, or distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience with production load testing, chaos engineering, or large-scale system validation.
• Experience with a chaos engineering vendor such as Gremlin, Harness, or something similar.
• Strong understanding of failure modes in distributed systems, including latency, partial failure, and cascading outages.
• Experience building or operating systems with strong safety guarantees (isolation, rate limiting, guardrails, auditability).
• Familiarity with cloud-native environments (AWS, Kubernetes) and observability tooling.
• Strong programming background (e.g., Python, Java, Kotlin, or similar).
• Excellent problem-solving skills and leadership abilities.
• This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of engineers building platforms and tooling for safe production experimentation.
• Own design and evolution of platforms enabling safe production load testing and fault injection.
• Establish safeguards, isolation boundaries, approval workflows, and automated rollback mechanisms.
• Build end-to-end observability, traceability, and auditability for resilience experiments.
• Drive reliability improvements by conducting load tests and chaos experiments.
• Establish monitoring, alerting, and incident response tailored to resilience validation.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, product, and security leadership to embed resilience in SDLC.

Skills

Leadership

Reliability engineering

Distributed systems

AWS

Kubernetes

Observability

Programming (Python/Java/Kotlin)

Problem solving

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Gremlin

Chaos engineering tooling

Job description

Affim is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Resilience Engineering team, focusing on production load testing and chaos engineering as core practices. You will empower engineers to safely stress-test systems in production while preventing customer impact.

You will guide architecture and tooling for safe experimentation, ensuring observability, traceability, and auditability across resilience tests. Remote-first with flexible in-person onboarding, competitive base pay, and equity are