Shape chaos engineering platforms at affirm by combining fault injection, production load testing, and strong safety guarantees. Work within the stated remote-first workforce model.
This Engineering Manager leads development of systems that safely test production behavior under stress and failure conditions. You will establish guardrails, isolation boundaries, monitoring, and auditability for experiments. The position also partners with infrastructure, product, security, and engineering leaders to embed resilience validation into development practices.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own platforms enabling controlled load testing and fault injection
- Build isolation boundaries, rate limits, and guardrails
- Provide reusable tooling, frameworks, and workflows
- Establish monitoring, alerting,
and incident response practices
- Partner across teams on secure resilience experiments
Requirements:
- Experience building systems with strong safety guarantees
- Experience using Gremlin, Harness, or similar chaos vendors
- Knowledge of cloud-native environments and observability tooling
- Strong distributed-systems failure-mode understanding
- Proven engineering-team leadership and cross-team influence
Use platform leadership, fault-injection expertise, and safety engineering judgment to strengthen affirm’s resilience validation capabilities.
📌 Chaos Engineering Platform Manager (Ottawa)
🏢 Affirm
📍 Ottawa