Shape chaos engineering at affirm by leading protected failure experiments, production validation, and tooling for reliable systems remotely.
This seasoned Engineering Manager leads affirm's Resilience Engineering team and makes chaos engineering a first-class practice. You will mentor engineers, establish experiment safeguards, and help teams test failure scenarios before users experience them. The role requires strong communication, programming, and systems judgment.
Key Responsibilities:
Lead and mentor resilience engineering platform developers
Partner across infrastructure, product, and security leadership
Build reusable tooling, frameworks, and standardized workflows
Coordinate safe production load and chaos experiments
Identify weaknesses and improve fault tolerance cross-functionally
Requirements:
Experience leading engineering teams in reliability or infrastructure
Hands-on chaos engineering or large-scale validation experience
Experience with Gremlin, Harness, or similar vendors
Robust distributed-systems failure-mode understanding
Strong programming background in Python, Kotlin, Java, or similar
Use chaos engineering, team leadership, and secure experimentation to strengthen affirm's production reliability practices.