Chime
Tech Lead Manager, Platform
$199K–$275K
San Francisco, CA, USA +1 · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 7, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, USA
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 5+ years of software engineering experience and 2+ years leading or managing engineers.
About the job
Leads a four-engineer team while building and managing Chime’s CI/CD and release-safety platform, enabling engineers to integrate and deploy code reliably.
What you'll do
- Build and ship production code; set technical direction, architecture, and quality standards for the team’s platform.
- Manage and develop the team, including coaching, performance management, promotion decisions, and hiring.
- Own CI/CD platform delivery and reliability, including safe releases, incident response, cross-team coordination, and AI-enabled workflows.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of software engineering experience and 2+ years leading or managing engineers, including hiring, performance management, and career development.
- Track record delivering CI/CD, build/release, or developer-productivity systems; production experience with CI systems, build pipelines, and artifact management.
- Production hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Argo CD, or GitOps-based deployment; strong development experience in Ruby, Go, Python, or comparable languages.
- Experience with progressive and safe delivery, operating production systems at scale, and using AI coding agents with a concrete example of impact.
Nice to have
- Experience with code intelligence and quality tooling, such as Sourcegraph, Artifactory, or code-quality and linting systems.
- Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and observability platforms (e.g., Datadog), or experience in financial services or other high-reliability, regulated environments.
Pay
$199,000 — $275,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
GitHub, CircleCI, Artifactory, Sourcegraph, Qlty, Kubernetes, Argo CD, Tuner
AI focus
Use AI coding agents and tooling across planning, coding, and operations/triage to improve individual and team velocity; demonstrate measurable impact.
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