Manager, Software Engineering (Resilience Engineering)

RemoteLeadPosted Aug 17, 2026

PythonKotlinJavaAWSKubernetesChaos engineeringDistributed systemsObservability+8 more

About this role

Lead Affirm's Resilience Engineering team to ensure production system safety through chaos engineering and load testing. Build platforms for controlled production experimentation with strong safeguards and observability.

Must have

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 chaos engineering vendors such as Gremlin, Harness, or similar

Strong understanding of failure modes in distributed systems

Experience building systems with strong safety guarantees

Familiarity with cloud-native environments and observability tooling

Strong programming background in Python, Kotlin, Java, or similar

Technologies

JavaPythonAWSKotlinGitDockerRESTLinuxMicroservicesDevOpsCloudKubernetesCI/CDDistributed systemsObservabilityChaos engineering

Responsibilities

Define and drive the vision for resilience engineering with focus on load testing and chaos engineering

Lead and mentor engineers building platforms for safe production experimentation

Partner with infrastructure, product, and security leadership to embed resilience validation

Own design and evolution of platforms for controlled production load testing and fault injection

Ensure safeguards including isolation boundaries, approval workflows, and automated rollback

Build systems for end-to-end observability, traceability, and auditability of experiments

Drive reliability improvements by identifying weaknesses through testing and experiments

Work with engineering teams to safely design and execute production experiments

Enable teams to adopt resilience practices through reusable tooling and frameworks

Benefits

Health insuranceDental insuranceVision insuranceEmployee share purchase planWellness allowanceHome office allowanceParental leaveFlexible vacation timeCompetitive salaryStock options

Amenities

100% subsidized medical, dental and vision coverage for you and dependentsFlexible Spending Wallets for technology, food, lifestyle and family forming expensesCompetitive vacation and holiday schedulesESPP enabling share purchases at a discount