Software Engineer, Infrastructure
Chime- Base salary
- $133k–$184k Published base salary range
- Location
- Hybrid - Chicago, IL, USA; New York, NY, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA, 4 days/week in office Remote eligibility
- Employment
- Full-time Mid-level
About the job
About the role
The Infrastructure Engineering organization comprises three sub-teams: Core Infrastructure, Infra Platform, and Data Infra. This role is on the Core Infrastructure team, which manages the infrastructure systems that power Chime, including AWS, Networking, Kubernetes, Terraform, and Observability. Responsibilities include automating scaling, monitoring, and operations; building self-service tools; designing and supporting cloud infrastructure using automation and infrastructure-as-code; adapting new technologies for efficiency and reliability; partnering with product development engineers on modern design patterns; and advocating for AI tools and agentic AI workflows.
Qualifications
- More than 2 years of cloud and infrastructure experience
- Strong development experience in Ruby on Rails and Go Lang
- Previous professional experience in a DevOps/SRE/ProdEng role supporting customer-facing web services
- Experience managing Kubernetes clusters (cloud-hosted or self-hosted)
- Experience building and managing highly-available public cloud infrastructure and services
- Experience with configuration management and infrastructure-as-code tools, including maintaining Terraform modules
- Experience supporting relational or no-SQL databases, message buses, caching services, and other common service components
- Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and observability platforms
- Experience with AWS services, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Datadog, Terraform
Compensation & benefits
Base salary range: $133,000—$184,000 USD. Full-time employees may also be eligible for bonus(es), competitive equity, and benefits. Benefits include comprehensive health, financial, and wellbeing benefits; generous vacation policy and company-wide paid days off; annual wellness stipend; up to 22 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents; family planning reimbursement; backup child, elder, and pet care; and subsidized commuter benefits for eligible employees.
Work policy
In-office work policy: four days a week in the office and Fridays from home for those near one of our offices, plus team and company-wide events depending on location. Fully remote program also available.
Application instructions
Apply via the provided Greenhouse link. For accommodation requests, contact accommodations@chime.com.
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