Manager of Software Engineering, Affirm
Resilience Engineering
$200-275k
Salary depends on location. + ESPP
Buy-now-pay-later card for online and in-store
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1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$200-275k
Salary depends on location. + ESPP
1001+ employees
Company mission
To deliver honest and transparent financial products that improve users' lives.
Role
Who you are
- 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 leveraging a chaos engineering vendor such as Gremlin, Harness, or something 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 (isolation, rate limiting, guardrails, auditability)
- Familiarity with cloud-native environments (AWS, Kubernetes) and observability tooling
- Strong programming background (e.g., Python, Kotlin, Java, or similar)
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to balance long-term resilience investments with immediate business needs
- Strong communication and leadership skills, with a track record of influencing engineering practices across teams
- This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field
What the job involves
- We are seeking a seasoned Engineering Manager to lead our Resilience Engineering team
- This role is critical in ensuring the safety and reliability of our production systems through proactive validation techniques, including production load testing and chaos engineering
- You will lead the development of systems and practices that allow engineers to safely test system behavior under stress and failure conditions in production, ensuring issues are discovered and mitigated before they impact real users
- Leadership & Strategy:
- Define and drive the vision for resilience engineering at Affirm, with a focus on production load testing and chaos engineering as first-class engineering practices
- Lead and mentor a team of 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
- Systems & Operations:
- Own the design and evolution of platforms that enable safe, controlled production load testing and fault injection
- Ensure strong safeguards are in place, including isolation boundaries, approval workflows, and automated rollback mechanisms to protect real users
- Build systems that provide end-to-end observability, traceability, and auditability for all resilience experiments
- Drive reliability improvements by systematically identifying weaknesses through load testing and chaos experiments
- Establish monitoring, alerting, and incident response practices tailored to proactive resilience validation
- Collaboration & Enablement:
- Work closely with engineering teams to design and execute production load tests and chaos experiments safely
- Partner with infrastructure teams to build guardrails around tests and experimentations
- Enable teams to adopt resilience practices by providing reusable tooling, frameworks, and standardized workflows
- Identify systemic weaknesses and lead cross-functional efforts to improve reliability and fault tolerance
- Evangelize a culture of “test failure before failure tests you” across the organization
Our take
Affirm offers point-of-sale loans to consumers, working with merchants like Shopify, KAYAK, and Walmart. Buy now, pay later transactions have grown in popularity in recent years, and this business is tapping into the market with a totally different approach to credit - by delivering the Affirm card, the first US debit card with the option to pay-over-time.
Serving over 21 million consumers and over 300,000 merchants, the company offers flexible payback options ranging from 3 to 36 months. The interest rates run between 0% and 30%, so, while they are not necessarily the cheapest option, Affirm prides itself on having no fees for late payments, no hidden charges, and total transparency about what people will pay before they take out a loan.
Affirm collects payments from the customers and pays the merchants directly, shouldering the risk itself. The company has boosted its market share, expanding its availability beyond the US to include most of Canada, and continues to launch new features and create new partnerships towards bettering its offering.
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Insights
-11% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Sep 2020
$500m
SERIES G
Apr 2019
$300m
SERIES F
Total funding: $1.1bn
Company benefits
- Compensation: We have a simple, flexible, and transparent remote-first compensation structure so you can make the best decisions for yourself and your family
- Spending Wallets: Access tech, food, lifestyle, and family planning wallets for your expenses
- Supportive Communities: Get involved with our employee resource groups and community groups
- Remote-first Workforce: If your role is remote, you can set up shop anywhere in your home country
- Generous Time Off: Take the time you need when life happens
- Health Benefits: Get a plan that fits your needs
- Mental Healthcare: Take care of your mind with great mental health programs
- Parental Leave: Birth and non-birth parents get 18 weeks’ paid leave. Plus, a 4-week return-to-work transition program, at full base pay
- Away Days: We offer 20 company-wide paid days off—which help our teams collectively pause to recharge
- Learning & Development: Engage in exciting learning programs to level up your growth
Company HQ
Chinatown, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Max Levchin
(Co-Founder & CEO)Has founded/co-founded numerous companies, holding various executive positions at each, including Paypal, Slide, Glow, HVF Labs, and SciFi VC. Also worked at large brands including Google, Yelp, Yahoo, and Evernote.
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