Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Responsibilities

• 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

Requirements

• 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 — you design for reliability, scalability, and maintainability from the start
• The ability to work autonomously on ambiguous problems and communicate clearly across teams

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with data ingestion and ETL pipelines

Compensation & Benefits

• Base salary: $133,000 – $184,000
• Eligible for bonus, competitive equity package, and benefits
• 401k match plus medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits
• Generous vacation policy and company-wide paid days off
• Up to 24 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents
• Annual wellness stipend
• 1% of time off to support local community organizations