Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure About the role

The Infrastructure Engineering team is responsible for the platform, tools, and infrastructure supporting Chime's customer‑serving products. As a Senior Software Engineer on this team, you will be developing tools to create and maintain cloud infrastructure, automating management of complex service‑oriented applications, and creating frameworks to ensure the stability and scalability of Chime's platform.

The base salary offered for this role will begin at $164,000 and up to $227,000. 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.

• Automate everything, including scaling, monitoring, and operations.
• Build tools to enable self‑service both within the team and across all of Chime engineering.
• Design, build, and support Chime's cloud infrastructure using automation and infrastructure‑as‑code.
• Develop tools and processes to enable the security, scalability, and availability of the products serving Chime's customers.
• 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.

• More than 2 years of cloud and Infrastructure experience
• Strong development experience in Ruby, Go, or another programming language.
• Previous professional experience in a Dev Ops/SRE/Prod Eng role supporting customer‑facing web services.
• Previous success in enabling effective partnerships and strong communication with other engineers and teams.
• Experience creating and working with containers, as well as using container orchestration tools.
• 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.
• Experience supporting relational or no‑SQL databases, message buses, caching services, and other common service components.
• Familiarity with CI/CD and testing platforms.
• 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

At Chime, we believe that everyone can achieve financial progress. We created Chime—a financial technology company, not a bank—on the premise that core banking services should be helpful, easy, and free. Through our user‑friendly tools and intuitive platforms, we empower our members to take control of their finances and work towards their goals. Whether it's starting a savings account, purchasing a first car or home, launching a business, or pursuing higher education, we're proud to have helped millions unlock their financial potential.

We're a team of problem solvers, dreamers, and builders with one shared obsession: our members. From day one, Chimers have worked tirelessly to out‑hustle and out‑execute competitors to bring our mission to life. Their grit and determination inspire us to work harder every day to deliver the very best experience possible. We each bring an owner's mindset to our work, refusing to be outdone and holding ourselves accountable to meet and exceed the highest bars for our teams, our company, and our members.

We believe in being bold, dreaming big, and taking risks, while also working together, embracing our diverse perspectives, and giving each other honest feedback. Our culture remains deeply entrepreneurial, encouraging every Chimer to see themselves as stewards of our mission to help everyday Americans unlock their financial progress.

We know that to achieve our mission, we must earn and keep people's trust—so we hold ourselves to the highest standards of integrity in everything we do. These aren't just words on a wall—our values are embedded in every aspect of our…