Software Engineer, Infrastructure Platform

Chime

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Work type
On-site
Location
Chicago, ILNew York, NYSan Francisco, CA
Salary
$133,000–$184,000 / yr
Posted
2 days ago
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How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $190k
This role $158k
$121k most similar roles pay here $240k

This role pays less than 62% of similar roles. Most pay $151,000–$228,950 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $158k versus about $190k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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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

Chime currently has 37 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $158,000–$227,000 across 36 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Software Engineer, Infrastructure Platform

As a Software Engineer, Infrastructure Platform, you will join the Infrastructure Platform team to manage user interactions with system components like Terraform, ArgoCD, AWS resources, and internal tooling. You will build tools to create and maintain cloud infrastructure, automate the management of complex service-oriented applications, and develop frameworks ensuring platform stability and scalability. Your daily work involves automating scaling, monitoring, and operations while building self-service tools for engineering teams. You will utilize Ruby on Rails and Go Lang to develop these solutions, manage Kubernetes Helm charts, and oversee continuous deployments. The role requires expertise in infrastructure-as-code, container orchestration, and supporting relational or no-SQL databases, message buses, and caching services. You will solve technical challenges related to the security, availability, and scalability of customer-serving products using tools like Datadog and various AWS services.

What does a Software Engineer earn in Illinois?

Median $160197 from 82 postings across 29 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Automate scaling, monitoring, and operations for infrastructure components.
  • Build self-service tools using Ruby on Rails and Go Lang for internal engineering teams.
  • Design and maintain cloud infrastructure using Terraform modules and infrastructure-as-code.
  • Manage Kubernetes Helm charts and oversee continuous deployment processes.
  • Develop systems to ensure the security, scalability, and availability of customer-facing products.
  • Build services following modern design patterns like the 12 Factor App methodology.
  • Support core service components including databases, message buses, and caching services.

What we're looking for

  • More than 2 years of cloud and infrastructure experience.
  • 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 building and managing high-availability 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 working with containers, container orchestration tools, and managing Kubernetes Helm charts.
  • Experience supporting relational or no-SQL databases, message buses, caching services, and other common service components.
  • Familiarity with CI/CD, testing platforms, monitoring, logging, and observability platforms.

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