Remote Engineering Manager, Resilience & Chaos Testing

Affirm; Nashville (TN); 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 experienced Engineering Manager to lead the Resilience Engineering team in Nashville, Tennessee. This role focuses on ensuring the safety and reliability of production systems through proactive validation techniques. Responsibilities include leading the development of testing systems, mentoring engineers, and collaborating with various teams. A strong background in reliability engineering, distributed systems, and cloud environments is required. Affirm offers a competitive salary and benefits, emphasizing flexibility and inclusivity.

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.
• Strong understanding of failure modes in distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the vision for resilience engineering at Affirm.
• Lead and mentor a team of engineers.
• Partner with infrastructure, product, and security leadership.

Skills

Reliability engineering

Distributed systems

Production load testing

Chaos engineering

Cloud-native environments

Programming (Python, Kotlin, Java)

Problem-solving

Leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Tools

Gremlin

AWS

Kubernetes

Job description

Affirm is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead the Resilience Engineering team in Nashville, Tennessee. This role focuses on ensuring the safety and reliability of production systems through proactive validation techniques. Responsibilities include leading the development of testing systems, mentoring engineers, and collaborating with various teams. A strong background in reliability engineering, distributed systems, and cloud environments is required. Affirm offers a competitive salary and benefits, emphasizing flexibility and inclusivity.