Software Engineer, Infrastructure at Chime Financial, Inc
San Francisco, CA
$133,000–$184,000from the description
Jul 10, 2026
San Francisco, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This infrastructure engineering role sits within a small platform team responsible for the systems that data engineers depend on daily. The work spans two main areas: deploying and maintaining workflow orchestration environments (Airflow, Flink) and owning core database infrastructure (DynamoDB, RDS). Day-to-day responsibilities include writing Terraform, managing Kubernetes workloads in production, and collaborating with data engineering teams to build reliable, scalable foundations.
Mid level · 2+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 16,700 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 10,000–25,100
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The JD states '2–4 years of software engineering experience' — this maps to Mid-level. The title carries no seniority label, so the title states no level.
The role writes infrastructure-as-code, builds deployment platforms, and ships production systems (Airflow/Flink environments, storage infra), making 15-1252 Software Developers the best fit over 15-1244 (ops/admin). Medium confidence because the role also has a meaningful operational/DBA dimension (DynamoDB, RDS ownership, capacity planning).
Python is listed as 'Python or a similar language' in the requirements section — alternatives populated with common substitutes; the requirement itself is a hard gate.
Airflow and Flink appear in the responsibilities narrative describing what the team builds, not in a dedicated requirements or preferred section. They are treated as preferred/stack context rather than hard gates.
ETL/data ingestion experience is explicitly called 'a strong plus' — treated as preferred.
The caller has declared this fully remote; the posting itself describes an in-office policy (4 days/week) for those near an office, but also references a 'fully remote program.' Remote=true per caller instruction.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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