Remote-First Resilience Engineering Manager

Affirm, Inc.; Madison (WI); Remote; USD 204,000 - 264,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage for you and dependents

Monthly tech stipends

Flexible time off and generous holiday

Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)

Job summary

Affim is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead the Resilience Engineering team, ensuring production systems are safe and reliable through proactive testing, including load testing and chaos engineering.

You will guide platforms and tooling for safe production experimentation, partnering with infra, product, and security leaders to weave resilience validation into the SDLC and establish strong safeguards and observability across tests.

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 leveraging a chaos engineering vendor such as Gremlin, Harness, or similar.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the resilience engineering vision with production load testing and chaos engineering as core practices.
• Lead and mentor engineers building platforms and tooling for safe production experimentation.
• Partner with infra, product, and security leadership to embed resilience validation into the software lifecycle.
• Establish best practices for safely testing system limits and failure scenarios in production.
• Own the design of platforms enabling safe production load testing and fault injection.
• Ensure safeguards including isolation, approvals, and automated rollback to protect users.

Skills

Leadership experience

Production load testing

Chaos engineering

Failure modes knowledge

Safety guarantees

AWS/Kubernetes observability

Programming (Python, Java, Kotlin)

Cross-team collaboration

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

Gremlin chaos testing

Harness chaos tooling

Job description

Affim is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead the Resilience Engineering team, ensuring production systems are safe and reliable through proactive testing, including load testing and chaos engineering.

You will guide platforms and tooling for safe production experimentation, partnering with infra, product, and security leaders to weave resilience validation into the SDLC and establish strong safeguards and observability across tests.