Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Summary

Chime is a financial technology company that aims to help everyone achieve financial progress. They are seeking a Software Engineer for their Core Infrastructure team to manage and enhance the infrastructure systems that power Chime, ensuring reliability and efficiency in their cloud operations.

Responsibilities

• Automate everything, including scaling, monitoring, and operations
• Build tools to enable self-service both within the team and across all of Chime engineering. Tooling is written in Ruby on Rails and Go Lang
• Design, build, and support Chime's cloud infrastructure using automation and infrastructure-as-code
• Adapt new technologies to make Chime run as efficiently and reliably as possible
• Partner with product development engineers to build services according to modern design patterns; for example, the 12 Factor App methodology
• Develop strong relationships with engineers, managers, and other colleagues based on trust, empathy, and technical expertise
• Be a constant advocate and adopter of AI tools and evangelize agentic AI workflows in a way that is safe and reliable

Skills

• 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
• Previous success in enabling effective partnerships and strong communication with other engineers and teams
• Experience managing Kubernetes clusters cloud hosted or self hosted
• Experience building and managing highly-available public cloud infrastructure and services, with an emphasis on stability, scalability, and security
• Experience using 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 common monitoring, logging, and observability platforms
• A positive attitude, a collaborative mindset, and a focus on the customer
• Experience with some of this tech - AWS services, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Datadog, Terraform

Qualifications

Must Haves

• 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
• Previous success in enabling effective partnerships and strong communication with other engineers and teams
• Experience managing Kubernetes clusters cloud hosted or self hosted
• Experience building and managing highly-available public cloud infrastructure and services, with an emphasis on stability, scalability, and security
• Experience using 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 common monitoring, logging, and observability platforms
• A positive attitude, a collaborative mindset, and a focus on the customer
• Experience with some of this tech - AWS services, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Datadog, Terraform

Benefits

• Our in-office work policy is designed to keep you connected - with 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.
• In-office perks including backup child, elder, and/or pet care, plus a subsidized commuter benefit to support your regular commute
• 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
• 1% of your time off to support local community organizations of your choice
• Annual wellness stipend to use towards eligible wellness related expenses
• Up to 24 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing parents and 12 weeks of paid parental leave for non-birthing parents
• Access to Maven, a family planning tool, with $15k lifetime reimbursement for egg freezing, fertility treatments, adoption, and more.
• 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!