Resilience Engineering Manager: Chaos & Load Testing

Affirm, Inc.; New York (NY); Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first compensation structure

Spending wallets for tech, food, and生活

Mental healthcare programs

Away days & paid time off

Learning & development programs

Job summary

Affirm, Inc. is seeking a seasoned Engineering Manager to lead our Resilience Engineering team.

This role focuses on ensuring the safety and reliability of production systems through proactive validation techniques, including production load testing and chaos engineering. You will design platforms and tooling for safe production experimentation, mentor engineers, and partner with infrastructure, product, and security leadership to embed resilience into the software lifecycle, with strong

Qualifications

• Familiarity with cloud-native environments (AWS, Kubernetes) and observability tooling.
• Strong communication and leadership skills with a track record of influencing engineering practices across teams.
• Strong understanding of failure modes in distributed systems, including latency, partial failure, and cascading outages.
• 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

• Lead the Resilience Engineering team and define the vision for resilience practices across production systems.
• Design and evolve platforms enabling safe production load testing and fault injection with strong safeguards.
• Partner with infrastructure, product, and security leadership to embed resilience into the SDLC.
• Build reusable tooling, frameworks, and workflows to enable teams to test failures safely at scale.
• Drive reliability improvements by identifying weaknesses through load testing and chaos experiments.

Skills

Load testing

Chaos engineering

Leadership

Observability

Programming (Python/Kotlin/Java)

Cloud-native (AWS/Kubernetes)

Reliability engineering

Incident response

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Gremlin

Harness

Job description

Affirm, Inc. is seeking a seasoned Engineering Manager to lead our Resilience Engineering team.

This role focuses on ensuring the safety and reliability of production systems through proactive validation techniques, including production load testing and chaos engineering. You will design platforms and tooling for safe production experimentation, mentor engineers, and partner with infrastructure, product, and security leadership to embed resilience into the software lifecycle, with strong