You d be joining the Data Infra team — a small, high-leverage team within Chime s Infrastructure Engineering org. We build and operate the foundational platform that Data Engineering relies on to run their workflows reliably at scale: from deploying Airflow and Flink environments to owning the DynamoDB and RDS infrastructure that powers Chime s data platform. This is a generalist role where you ll touch both pillars — the data engineering deployment layer and the storage layer — so you ll never be bored. If you get energy from building durable foundations that other engineers build on top of, this team is for you.

The base salary offered for this role and level of experience will begin at $133,000.00 and up to $184,000.00. Full-time employees are also eligible for a bonus, competitive equity package, and benefits. The actual base salary offered may be higher, depending on your location, skills, qualifications, and experience.

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

To thrive in this role, you have

2–4 years of software engineering experience with a focus on infrastructure, platform, or backend systems

Hands-on production experience with Terraform and Kubernetes

Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Responsibilities

Qualification

Required

Preferred

Benefits

Company

Chime

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