Remote Engineering Manager, Resilience & Reliability

Affirm, Inc.; Charlotte (NC); Remote; USD 204,000 - 290,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% paid health coverage for you and家

Job summary

Affirm, Inc. seeks a seasoned Engineering Manager to lead the Resilience Engineering team, ensuring safety and reliability of production systems through proactive validation, including production load testing and chaos engineering.

You will guide platforms and tooling for safe production experimentation, partnering with infra, product, and security leadership to embed resilience validation in the SDLC and establish safeguards and best practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the resilience engineering vision and strategy.
• Lead and mentor engineers building platforms/tools for safe production experimentation.
• Partner with infrastructure, product, and security leadership to embed resilience validation in the SDLC.
• Establish best practices for testing system limits and failure scenarios in production.
• Own design/evolution of platforms enabling safe production load testing and fault injection.
• Build observability, traceability, and auditability for resilience experiments.

Skills

Leadership

Production load testing

Chaos engineering

Cloud-native environments (AWS, K8s)

Programming (Python, Kotlin, Java)

Problem solving

Communication & leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

Gremlin

Harness

AWS

Kubernetes

Python

Java

Kotlin

Job description

Affirm, Inc. seeks a seasoned Engineering Manager to lead the Resilience Engineering team, ensuring safety and reliability of production systems through proactive validation, including production load testing and chaos engineering.

You will guide platforms and tooling for safe production experimentation, partnering with infra, product, and security leadership to embed resilience validation in the SDLC and establish safeguards and best practices.