Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Chime is a financial technology company that empowers its members to achieve financial progress. The Software Engineer, Infrastructure role involves building and maintaining the foundational platform for Data Engineering, focusing on deployment infrastructure and core storage technologies.

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