Manager, Software Engineering (Resilience Engineering)

Affirm

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Quick summary

Work type: Remote
Location: Remote
Salary: $230,000–$290,000 / yr
Posted: 56 days ago

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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role $260k

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About Affirm

Affirm is a buy-now, pay-later (BNPL) financial technology company that offers point-of-sale installment loans to consumers, allowing them to split purchases into fixed monthly payments with transparent terms. Industry: Financial Technology & Consumer Lending

Affirm currently has 59 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $195,000–$255,000 across 59 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Manager, Software Engineering (Resilience Engineering)

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We are seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead our Resilience Engineering team, focusing on ensuring the safety and reliability of production systems through proactive validation techniques like chaos engineering and load testing. This role involves developing platforms and practices that allow for safe experimentation under stress conditions in production, collaborating with infrastructure, product, and security teams to embed resilience into development processes. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with chaos engineering tools such as Gremlin or Harness, a strong understanding of distributed systems failure modes, and expertise in cloud-native environments like AWS and Kubernetes. Additionally, proficiency in programming languages like Python, Kotlin, or Java is essential, along with excellent leadership and communication skills to influence resilience practices across the organization.

Skills

AWS Kubernetes Chaos Engineering Gremlin Python Java Observability CI/CD Docker Prometheus Grafana

What you'll do

Define and drive the vision for resilience engineering, focusing on production load testing and chaos engineering.
Lead a team of engineers in building platforms and tooling for safe production experimentation.
Establish best practices for safely testing system limits and failure scenarios in production environments.
Own the design and evolution of systems that enable controlled production load testing and fault injection.
Build end-to-end observability, traceability, and auditability systems for all resilience experiments.

What we're looking for

Proven experience leading engineering teams in reliability, infrastructure, or distributed systems.
Hands-on expertise with production load testing and chaos engineering.
Experience building or operating safety-guaranteed systems with isolation, rate limiting, guardrails, and auditability.
Strong programming background (Python, Kotlin, Java) and familiarity with cloud-native environments (AWS, Kubernetes).
Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to balance long-term resilience investments with immediate business needs.

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