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Manager, Software Engineering (Resilience Engineering)

15 hours, 20 minutes ago
United States
Full-time
Lead
Engineering Manager
Software Development
AWS Java Kotlin Kubernetes Microservices Python
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Affirm

Affirm

Affirm offers a transparent buy now, pay later service founded in 2012 by Max Levchin. No late fees or surprises, just a responsible way to pay over time for your favorite brands.

Diversified Financial Services
1K-5K
Founded 2012
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Description

  • Define and drive the resilience engineering vision, with emphasis on production load testing and chaos engineering.
  • Lead and mentor a team of engineers building platforms and tooling for safe production experimentation.
  • Partner with infrastructure, product, and security leaders to embed resilience validation into the software development lifecycle.
  • Own the design and evolution of systems for controlled production load testing and fault injection.
  • Implement safeguards such as isolation boundaries, approval workflows, and automated rollback mechanisms.
  • Build end-to-end observability, traceability, and auditability for resilience experiments.
  • Drive reliability improvements by identifying weaknesses through load testing and chaos experiments.
  • Establish monitoring, alerting, and incident response practices for proactive resilience validation.
  • Work with engineering teams to design and execute safe production load tests and chaos experiments.
  • Enable adoption of resilience practices through reusable tooling, frameworks, and standardized workflows.

Requirements

  • 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 a chaos engineering vendor such as Gremlin, Harness, or a similar tool.
  • Strong understanding of distributed system failure modes, including latency, partial failure, and cascading outages.
  • Experience building or operating systems with strong safety guarantees, including isolation, rate limiting, guardrails, and auditability.
  • Familiarity with cloud-native environments such as AWS and Kubernetes, plus observability tooling.
  • Strong programming background in Python, Kotlin, Java, or similar languages.
  • Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to balance resilience investments with immediate business needs.
  • Strong communication and leadership skills with a track record of influencing engineering practices across teams.
  • Equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field is required.

Benefits

  • Remote-first work environment, with most roles available almost anywhere in the country of employment.
  • Affirm covers 100% of medical, dental, and vision premiums for you and your dependents.
  • Monthly stipends for health, wellness, and tech spending.
  • Flexible Spending Wallets for technology, food, lifestyle needs, and family-forming expenses.
  • Competitive vacation and holiday schedules.
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) with the ability to buy Affirm shares at a discount.
  • Base salary range of $200,000 - $250,000 per year for most U.S. states, or $225,000 - $275,000 in CA, WA, NY, NJ, and CT.

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