Manager, Software Engineering (Resilience Engineering)
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AffirmConsumer finance
Location: Remote USFull-TimeManager
SalaryUSA base pay range (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT) per year: 230,000 - 290,000; USA base pay range (all other U.S. states) per year: 204,000 - 264,000
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- AWSPythonKotlinKubernetesDistributed Systems
Requirements
- 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 using a chaos engineering vendor such as Gremlin or Harness, or a similar tool.
- Strong understanding of distributed-system failure modes, including latency, partial failure, and cascading outages.
- Experience building or operating systems with safety guarantees such as isolation, rate limiting, guardrails, and auditability.
- Familiarity with cloud-native environments such as AWS and Kubernetes, and observability tooling.
- Strong programming background in Python, Kotlin, Java, or a similar language.
- Equivalent practical experience or a bachelor's degree in a related field.
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the vision for resilience engineering, with a focus 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.
- Own the design and evolution of platforms for controlled production load testing and fault injection.
- Establish isolation boundaries, approval workflows, automated rollback mechanisms, and experiment auditability.
- Build monitoring, alerting, and incident response practices for proactive resilience validation.
- Work with engineering teams to design and execute production load tests and chaos experiments safely.
- Lead cross-functional efforts to address systemic weaknesses and improve reliability and fault tolerance.
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