Software Engineer, Infrastructure

chime; United States; Hybrid; USD 164,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Equity

Health benefits

Generous vacation

Parental leave

Wellness stipend

Commuter benefits

Job summary

Chime is looking for a Software Engineer to join the Core Infrastructure team. You will help manage AWS, networking, Kubernetes, Terraform, and observability, writing internal tooling in Ruby on Rails and Go to empower self-service across the engineering org.

You will automate scaling, monitoring, and operations while designing resilient cloud infrastructure. Collaboration with product teams and a focus on modern patterns like 12-Factor will be essential for delivering reliable services to

Qualifications

• 2+ years of cloud and infrastructure experience.
• Strong development experience in Ruby on Rails and Go.
• Experience supporting customer-facing web services in a DevOps/SRE/production engineering role.
• Experience managing Kubernetes clusters, cloud-hosted or self-hosted.
• Experience using infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform.

Responsibilities

• Automate scaling, monitoring, and operations across the core infrastructure stack.
• Build internal tooling in Ruby on Rails and Go to enable self-service for engineering teams.
• Design, build, and support cloud infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code and automation.
• Adopt new technologies to improve efficiency and reliability of the platform.
• Partner with product engineers to build services following 12 Factor App patterns.
• Foster strong relationships with engineers and managers through trust and collaboration.
• Advocate for and adopt AI tools to enable safe and reliable agentic workflows.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

DevOps mindset

Team collaboration

Tools

Ruby on Rails

Go

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

Role overview

A financial technology company is hiring a Software Engineer to join its Core Infrastructure team, which manages the AWS, networking, Kubernetes, Terraform, and observability layers that power the platform. The team is responsible for cloud operations, the observability stack, and the compute layer, and writes internal tooling in Ruby on Rails and Go to enable self-service across the engineering organization. The role partners closely with product engineers to deliver reliable, modern services for members.

Responsibilities

• Automate scaling, monitoring, and operations across the core infrastructure stack
• Build internal tooling in Ruby on Rails and Go to enable self-service for engineering teams
• Design, build, and support cloud infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code and automation
• Adapt new technologies to improve the efficiency and reliability of the platform
• Partner with product development engineers to build services following modern design patterns such as the 12 Factor App methodology
• Build strong working relationships with engineers and managers based on trust, empathy, and technical expertise
• Advocate for and adopt AI tools, helping to evangelize safe and reliable agentic workflows

Requirements

• 2+ years of cloud and infrastructure experience
• Strong development experience in Ruby on Rails and Go
• Prior experience in a DevOps, SRE, or production engineering role supporting customer-facing web services
• Experience managing Kubernetes clusters, whether cloud-hosted or self-hosted
• Experience building and operating highly available public cloud infrastructure with attention to stability, scalability, and security
• Experience using configuration management and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform
• Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and observability platforms
• Collaborative mindset, positive attitude, and customer focus

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience with AWS services, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Datadog, or Terraform
• Experience supporting relational or NoSQL databases, message buses, and caching services

Benefits and work setup

• Base salary range of $164,000 to $227,000 plus bonus, equity, and a competitive benefits program
• Hybrid model with four days in office and Fridays remote for those near a hub office, alongside a fully remote program option
• Comprehensive health, financial, and wellbeing benefits plus backup child, elder, and pet care
• Generous vacation policy with company-wide paid days off and 1% of time allocated to community organizations
• Up to 22 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents, plus family planning reimbursement
• Annual wellness stipend and subsidized commuter benefits for eligible employees