Senior Data Platform Engineer - Scale Data Pipelines

Chime Financial, Inc; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 187,000 - 259,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Office in-office policy

Health benefits

Generous vacation

Parental leave

Job summary

Chime Financial, Inc is seeking multiple senior Data Platform Engineers to own and shape our data infrastructure. You will design and operate self-serve ETL/ELT frameworks for batch and streaming workloads, ensuring reliability and governance across teams.

You will drive the data platform roadmap, collaborate with Product Engineering, Data Science, Analytics, and Marketing, and implement data contracts and ingestion at scale.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building, shipping, and operating data infrastructure in production.
• Strong system design skills with documented trade-offs.
• Proficiency in Python or Java/Kotlin with emphasis on testing and maintainability.
• Experience with modern data stack: cloud warehouse, orchestration, and IaC.
• Ability to operate in regulated fintech data governance environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate self-serve ETL/ELT frameworks for batch and streaming workloads, owning reliability, data quality SLAs, and schema evolution.
• Drive the data platform roadmap, evaluate build-vs-buy, define integration patterns, and establish cross-team standards.
• Partner with Product Engineering, Data Science, Analytics, and Marketing as a technical lead to design data contracts and scale ingestion while ensuring governance.
• Architect and enforce data lineage, schema registry, and access controls across domains to meet fintech regulatory requirements.
• Own the platform—monitor, alert, debug, and resolve incidents with infrastructure-level urgency.
• Mentor junior/mid-level engineers and elevate coding and design reviews across the team.
• Engineers participate in on-call rotations; on-call duties may fall outside regular hours.

Skills

Data infrastructure design

System design

Data quality & governance

Python/Java/Kotlin

Cloud data warehouses

Airflow/Dagster/Prefect

Terraform

Kafka/Flink/Kinesis

dbt

Observability

Tools

Snowflake

BigQuery

Redshift

Airflow

Dagster

Prefect

Terraform

Kafka

Flink

Kinesis

dbt

Job description

Chime Financial, Inc is seeking multiple senior Data Platform Engineers to own and shape our data infrastructure. You will design and operate self-serve ETL/ELT frameworks for batch and streaming workloads, ensuring reliability and governance across teams.

You will drive the data platform roadmap, collaborate with Product Engineering, Data Science, Analytics, and Marketing, and implement data contracts and ingestion at scale.