Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Chime

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Chicago, ILNew York, NYSan Francisco, CA
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63 days ago
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About Chime

Chime is a financial technology company offering mobile-first banking services including fee-free checking accounts, savings accounts, and a secured credit builder card through partner banks. Industry: Financial Technology & Neobanking

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TL;DR · Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Software Engineer, Infrastructure joins the Core Infrastructure team to manage the systems powering Chime products, including cloud operations, observability, and compute layers. This role focuses on automating scaling, monitoring, and operations while building self-service tools for the engineering organization. The engineer will design, build, and support cloud infrastructure using automation and infrastructure-as-code to ensure reliability and efficiency. Key responsibilities include partnering with product teams to implement modern design patterns like the 12 Factor App methodology and advocating for agentic AI workflows. The role requires proficiency in Ruby on Rails and Go Lang, along with experience managing Kubernetes clusters, Terraform modules, and AWS services. Candidates must also be skilled in supporting relational or no-SQL databases, message buses, caching services, and monitoring platforms like Datadog to maintain high-availability public cloud infrastructure for customer-facing web services.

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What you'll do

  • Automate scaling, monitoring, and operations for core infrastructure systems.
  • Build self-service tools using Ruby on Rails and Go Lang for internal and external engineering teams.
  • Design, build, and support cloud infrastructure using automation and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform).
  • Integrate new technologies to improve the efficiency and reliability of Chime's systems.
  • Partner with product engineers to build services following modern design patterns like 12 Factor App.
  • Manage Kubernetes clusters and high-availability public cloud infrastructure for stability and security.
  • Maintain and support databases, message buses, caching services, and observability platforms.
  • Advocate for and implement safe, reliable agentic AI workflows across the organization.

What we're looking for

  • More than 2 years of experience in cloud and infrastructure.
  • Strong development experience in Ruby on Rails and Go Lang.
  • Professional experience in a DevOps, SRE, or Product Engineering role supporting customer-facing web services.
  • Experience managing both hosted and self-hosted Kubernetes clusters.
  • Experience building and managing highly-available public cloud infrastructure with a focus 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 monitoring, logging, and observability platforms such as Datadog.

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