Software Engineer, Infrastructure Platform
Chime
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How this pay compares to similar roles
This role pays less than 61% of similar roles. Most pay $144,350–$214,000 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $158k versus about $179k for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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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
Chime currently has 40 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $164,000–$251,500 across 40 roles with salary data.
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The Software Engineer, Infrastructure joins the Core Infrastructure team to manage the systems powering Chime products, including cloud operations, the observability layer, and the compute layer. You will automate scaling, monitoring, and operations while building self-service tools for the engineering organization. Key responsibilities include designing and supporting cloud infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code, adapting new technologies for efficiency, and partnering with product development engineers to build services following the 12 Factor App methodology. You will utilize Ruby on Rails, Go Lang, AWS, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Datadog, and Terraform. The role requires managing highly-available public cloud infrastructure, relational or no-SQL databases, message buses, and caching services. You will ensure stability, scalability, and security for customer-facing web services while advocating for safe and reliable agentic AI workflows.
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