Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Chime, a financial technology company (not a bank), is hiring a Software Engineer, Infrastructure to join the Data Infra team within its Infrastructure Engineering org. The team builds and operates the foundational platform that Data Engineering relies on to run workflows reliably at scale, from deploying Airflow and Flink environments to owning the DynamoDB and RDS infrastructure powering Chime's data platform. This is a generalist role touching both the data engineering deployment layer and the storage layer.

• Build and maintain deployment infrastructure for Data Engineering workflows, including Airflow, Flink, and chalk.ai environments
• Own and operate Chime's core storage technologies — DynamoDB and RDS — serving both data engineering and platform teams
• Write infrastructure-as-code using Terraform and manage workloads on Kubernetes in production
• Partner closely with Data Engineering to translate their needs into scalable, reliable infrastructure solutions
• Drive reliability improvements across the platform — observability, capacity planning, and operational hygiene
• Participate in the full lifecycle of infrastructure changes: design, build, test, and ship
• Help shape how the Data Infra team scales its practices as Chime grows

• 2–4 years of software engineering experience with a focus on infrastructure, platform, or backend systems
• Hands-on production experience with Terraform and Kubernetes
• Familiarity with AWS, particularly managed database services like DynamoDB and RDS
• Strong programming skills in Python or a similar language
• A systems-thinking mindset — designing for reliability, scalability, and maintainability from the start
• The ability to work autonomously on ambiguous problems and communicate clearly across teams
• Experience with data ingestion and ETL pipelines is a strong plus

The base salary for this role begins at $133,000.00 and goes up to $184,000.00; the actual base salary offered may be higher depending on location, skills, qualifications, and experience. Full-time employees are also eligible for a bonus, competitive equity package, and benefits. Benefits include backup child, elder, and pet care, subsidized commuter benefits, comprehensive health/financial/wellbeing benefits, a generous vacation policy and company-wide paid days off, an annual wellness stipend, up to 22 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents, and access to family planning reimbursement.

Chime's in-office work policy is four days a week in the office and Fridays from home for those near one of its offices, plus team and company-wide events depending on location; there is also a fully remote program.