# Manager, Software Engineering (Resilience Engineering)

At Affirm, we exist for the moments that matter-giving people a clear, predictable way to pay over time, with no hidden fees, no surprises, and no tradeoffs on what matters most. 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. What you’ll do 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 scen

- **Id**: 78164
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/affirm-manager-software-engineering-resilience-engineering-2>
- **Role**: Management
- **Role family**: Management
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: posting_text
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Canada
- **Countries**: CA
- **Hiring countries**: CA
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-04-30T18:00:31Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-27
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T18:47:50Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 191
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5492
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Flexible time off
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Buy Now, Pay Later

## Company

- **Id**: 572
- **Name**: Affirm
- **Domain**: affirm.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/affirm>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 86
- **Open postings**: 8
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.375
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 67
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 86000
- **Max usd**: 222000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 20

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Chaos Engineering** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **Kotlin** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 1
- **Days open**: 190

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Canada** — Iso: CA; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-04-30T18:00:31Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-09-26T07:02:14Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-10-28T01:17:08Z

## Visa

- Country: CA; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Positions approved through LMIA in 12 months: 5; Filings 12m: 5

## Liveness

- **Score**: 20
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.702
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 190
- **Expected fill days**: 67
- **Reasons**: conf:3, velocity, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

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