Chime
Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform
$187K–$259K
San Francisco, CA, USA +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 2, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, USA
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 5+ years building, shipping, and operating data infrastructure in production.
About the job
Build and operate Chime’s data platform, including scalable ingestion, transformation, governance, and self-serve systems for batch and streaming data.
What you'll do
- Own ETL/ELT frameworks, pipeline reliability, data quality, schema evolution, and platform incident response.
- Set the platform roadmap and technical standards; architect lineage, schema registry, and access controls.
- Partner with internal teams on data contracts and onboarding, and mentor engineers through reviews and hands-on guidance.
What they ask for
- 5+ years building, shipping, and operating production data infrastructure at scale.
- Strong system design skills, including documenting trade-offs and delivering solutions.
- Deep proficiency in Python or Java/Kotlin; production experience with a cloud warehouse, workflow orchestration, Terraform, streaming technology, and dbt.
- Experience building data observability and working in a regulated environment with governance, access controls, and audit trails.
Pay
$187,000 — $259,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Python, Java/Kotlin, Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Airflow, Dagster, Prefect
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