Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Chime

Software Engineer joining the Data Infra team at Chime. Building reliable infrastructure for data engineering workflows using Terraform and Kubernetes.

Posted 6/12/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesJuniorMid-Level💰 $133,000 - $184,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AirflowAWSDynamoDBETLKubernetesPythonTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

What you’ll need

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
Experience with data ingestion and ETL pipelines is a strong plus.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive salary based on experience
401k match plus great medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits
Generous vacation policy and company-wide Chime Days, bonus company-wide paid days off
Access to Maven, a family planning tool, with $15k lifetime reimbursement for egg freezing, fertility treatments, adoption, and more.
Annual wellness stipend to use towards eligible wellness related expenses
In-office perks including backup child, elder, and/or pet care, plus a subsidized commuter benefit to support your regular commute
Up to 24 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing parents and 12 weeks of paid parental leave for non-birthing parents.
In-person and virtual events to connect with your fellow Chimers—think cooking classes, guided meditations, music festivals, mixology classes, paint nights, etc., and delicious snack boxes, too!

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Hard Skills & Tools

TerraformKubernetesPythonAirflowFlinkDynamoDBRDSdata ingestionETL pipelinesinfrastructure-as-code

Soft Skills

systems-thinkingautonomous workclear communicationreliability designscalability designmaintainability design