Affirm
Manager, Software Engineering (Resilience Engineering)
$204K–$290K
Remote US +1 · Remote · Manager · Full-time · Posted Apr 30, 2026
- Location
- Remote US
Remote Canada - Education
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Leads Affirm’s Resilience Engineering team in building safe production load-testing and chaos-engineering practices to identify and address system weaknesses before they affect users.
What you'll do
- Set the resilience engineering strategy and lead a team developing platforms and tools for production experimentation.
- Build and operate safeguards, observability, and workflows for controlled load testing and fault injection.
- Partner across engineering and infrastructure teams to improve reliability and embed resilience practices.
What they ask for
- 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 using a chaos engineering vendor such as Gremlin or Harness, or similar.
- Strong understanding of distributed-system failure modes and experience with systems that provide safety guarantees.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with AWS, Kubernetes, and observability tooling.
- Programming experience in Python, Kotlin, Java, or similar.
Pay
USD 230,000–290,000 per year base salary (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT); USD 204,000–264,000 per year base salary (all other U.S. states)
Tools
Gremlin, Harness, AWS, Kubernetes, Python, Kotlin, Java
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