Manager, Software Engineering – Resilience Engineering

🕒 April 30

🌐 United States, Canada – Remote

🇺🇸 United States – Remote 🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $204k - $264k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👮‍♀️ Software Engineering Manager

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Affirm

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2012

💳 Fintech

👥 B2C

🛍️ eCommerce

💰 Post-IPO Equity on 2021-01

Fintech • B2C • eCommerce

Affirm is a financial technology company that offers a 'Buy Now, Pay Later' service, allowing consumers to make purchases and pay for them over time with flexible payment plans. Affirm eliminates hidden fees and compound interest, providing clear terms and conditions for its users. The company also offers the Affirm Card, a debit card that allows users to request to pay over time for larger purchases or pay in full for smaller ones. Affirm partners with various retailers across multiple categories, including electronics, apparel, and travel, providing customers with the convenience of paying over time at checkout both online and in physical stores. Affirm's services are integrated with Apple Pay, enabling customers to make payments seamlessly from their iPhone or iPad.

📋 Description

• Define and drive the vision for resilience engineering at Affirm, focusing on production load testing and chaos engineering • Lead and mentor engineers building platforms and tooling for safe production experimentation • Partner with infrastructure, product, and security leadership to embed resilience validation into the software development lifecycle • Establish best practices for safely testing system limits and failure scenarios in production • Own the design and evolution of platforms for controlled production load testing and fault injection • Ensure safeguards such as isolation boundaries, approval workflows, and automated rollback mechanisms • Build systems providing observability, traceability, and auditability for resilience experiments • Identify weaknesses through load testing and chaos experiments and drive reliability improvements • Establish monitoring, alerting, and incident response practices for proactive resilience validation • Collaborate with engineering and infrastructure teams to execute experiments safely and build guardrails • Provide reusable tooling, frameworks, and standardized workflows to enable resilience practices • Lead cross-functional efforts to improve reliability and fault tolerance • Evangelize a culture of testing failure before failure occurs

🎯 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 similar • Strong understanding of failure modes in distributed systems, 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, AWS, Kubernetes, and observability tooling • Strong programming background in Python, Kotlin, Java, or similar • Excellent problem-solving skills • 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

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity rewards may be included in total compensation • Monthly stipends for health, wellness, and tech spending • 100% subsidized medical coverage for employees and dependents • Dental and vision coverage for employees and dependents • Flexible time off • Generous holiday calendars • Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) with discounted Affirm stock • Remote-first work flexibility • In-person onboarding experience • Inclusive interview process and accommodations for candidates with disabilities