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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.\nYou 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.\nWhat you’ll do\nLeadership & Strategy\nDefine and drive the vision for resilience engineering at Affirm, with a focus on production load testing and chaos engineering as first-class engineering practices.\nLead and mentor a team of engineers building platforms and tooling for safe production experimentation.\nPartner with infrastructure, product, and security leadership to embed resilience validation into the software development lifecycle.\nEstablish best practices for safely testing system limits and failure scenarios in production.\nSystems & Operations\nOwn the design and evolution of platforms that enable safe, controlled production load testing and fault injection.\nEnsure strong safeguards are in place, including isolation boundaries, approval workflows, and automated rollback mechanisms to protect real users.\nBuild systems that provide end-to-end observability, traceability, and auditability for all resilience experiments.\nDrive reliability improvements by systematically identifying weaknesses through load testing and chaos experiments.\nEstablish monitoring, alerting, and incident response practices tailored to proactive resilience validation.\nCollaboration & Enablement\nWork closely with engineering teams to design and execute production load tests and chaos experiments safely.\nPartner with infrastructure teams to build guardrails around tests and experimentations.\nEnable teams to adopt resilience practices by providing reusable tooling, frameworks, and standardized workflows.\nIdentify systemic weaknesses and lead cross-functional efforts to improve reliability and fault tolerance.\nEvangelize a culture of “test failure before failure tests you” across the organization.\nWhat we look for\nProven experience leading engineering teams in reliability, infrastructure, or distributed systems.\nHands-on experience with production load testing, chaos engineering, or large-scale system validation.\nExperience with leveraging a chaos engineering vendor such as Gremlin, Harness, or something similar.\nStrong understanding of failure modes in distributed systems, including latency, partial failure, and cascading outages.\nExperience building or operating systems with strong safety guarantees (isolation, rate limiting, guardrails, auditability).\nFamiliarity with cloud-native environments (AWS, Kubernetes) and observability tooling.\nStrong programming background (e.g., Python, Kotlin, Java, or similar).\nExcellent problem-solving skills and the ability to balance long-term resilience investments with immediate business needs.\nStrong communication and leadership skills, with a track record of influencing engineering practices across teams.\nThis posting is for an existing vacancy.\nPay Grade - P\nEquity Grade - 7\n Employees new to Affirm typically come in at the start of the pay range. Affirm focuses on providing a simple and transparent pay structure which is based on a variety of factors, including location, experience and job-related skills. \nBase pay is part of a total compensation package that may include monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending, and benefits (including 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents). In addition, the employees may be eligible for equity rewards offered by Affirm Holdings, Inc. (parent company).\nCAN base pay range per year: 181,000 - 241,000\n#LI-Remote\nRemote-first with flexibility built in\n Affirm is proud to be a remote-first company. Most roles can be done from almost anywhere within the country of employment. Some positions may occasionally require in-person work at an Affirm office, and a few are office-based due to the nature of the work. All new hires will be invited to attend an in-person onboarding experience.\nBenefits designed for you \n Our benefits reflect our commitment to care, transparency, and flexibility. Here are a few highlights:\nHealth coverage at no cost: We cover 100% of premiums for employees and their dependents.\nSpending stipends: Monthly stipends support your tech setup, and the ability to choose health and wellness options that are right for you.\nTime off to recharge: Flexible time off and generous holiday calendars help you rest when you need to.\nOwn a piece of what you build: Our employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) lets you buy Affirm stock at a discount.\nWe’re committed to providing an inclusive interview process, including accommodations for candidates with disabilities. 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