Engineering Manager, Data Platform
Chime Financial, IncSan Francisco, California, United States · Posted 5 months agoDescription
About the Role
As an Engineering Manager on Chime’s Data Platform, leading the Data Storage team, you will own the group that manages Chime’s online and analytical data stores and low-latency metric serving layer. Your team will be responsible for building and operating reliable, scalable, and secure storage foundations that power analytics, experimentation, and AI-driven product experiences across Chime.
You’ll partner closely with other Data Platform squads as well as Product Engineering, Security, and Analytics teams to define storage strategies, data contracts, and SLAs that support both high-scale batch workloads and latency-sensitive online use cases. Your leadership will directly impact how Chime stores, governs, and serves data - enabling trusted, self-serve, AI-ready data for Chimers across the company.
This role is not just about running infrastructure - it’s about setting a vision for the future of data storage at Chime, fostering a culture of technical excellence, and growing a high-performing team that can evolve our architecture as the business and our data scale.
The base salary offered for this role and level of experience will begin at $199,000 and up to $275,000. Full-time employees are also eligible for a bonus, competitive equity package, and benefits. The actual base salary offered may be higher, depending on your location, skills, qualifications, and experience.
In this role, you can expect to
- Own the strategy and roadmap for Chime’s Data Storage Platform, including Snowflake, data lake and online data stores for low-latency access.
- Design and evolve scalable, high-performance storage architecture that balance reliability, cost, and ease of use for both analytical and in-product workloads.
- Ensure performant and secure data access by defining and enforcing access patterns, partitioning and clustering strategies, indexing, and caching and serving layers for key datasets and metrics.
- Collaborate across Data Platform and partner teams to define clear data contracts, schemas, and SLAs between producers, storage, and consumers.
- Build tooling and automation for governance and compliance across sinks (e.g., RBAC, PII protection, tokenization, lineage, and auditability) in partnership with Security, Risk, and Compliance.
- Manage and grow a team of engineers, setting clear expectations, providing coaching and feedback, and raising the bar on engineering quality and operational excellence.
- Establish strong operational practices, including on-call, incident management, postmortems, and SLOs for the storage and serving layers your team owns.
- Stay ahead of industry trends in data storage, lakehouse architectures, and AI/ML-ready data systems, and thoughtfully introduce technologies that improve our platform’s capabilities.
To thrive in this role, you have
- Have 8+ years of experience in high-scale, high-reliability software development, with a focus on platforms, infrastructure, and data storage systems.
- Have 3+ years of experience managing engineering teams, including hiring, performance management, and developing engineers.
- Have a track record of scaling products, platforms, and operations to support rapid growth in data volume, complexity, and criticality.
- Bring deep experience with data infrastructure components, such as data lakes and lakehouses (e.g., Iceberg), data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake), online and offline data stores, and both batch and real-time streaming systems.
- Have proven expertise in system and data architecture for scalable, secure, and cost-efficient data platforms, including schema design, data modeling, and partitioning strategies.
- Are comfortable working with modern data and infrastructure technologies, such as Spark, Flink, Kafka, Airflow, Kubernetes, and similar tools.
- Are proficient in Python or similar languages (e.g., Java, Scala) and familiar with SQL and performance tuning for analytical workloads.
- Have extensive experience in cloud-based data ecosystems, such as AWS (S3, DynamoDB, Redshift, Snowflake, EMR), GCP (BigQuery, Dataflow), or Azure equivalents.
- Understand data governance, security, and compliance best practices (e.g., RBAC, PII handling, auditability) and have helped design systems that meet regulatory and internal standards.
- Are deeply interested in the transformative potential of advanced AI systems and how to build AI-ready data foundations (metadata, lineage, semantic layers, feature and metric serving).
- Excel at building strong relationships with stakeholders across engineering, product, analytics, security, and finance, and can translate between technical and business contexts.
- Demonstrate strong people leadership, with a track record of building a culture of belonging and engineering excellence.
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A little about us
At Chime, we believe that everyone can achieve financial progress. We created Chime—a financial technology company, not a bank*—on the premise that core banking services should be helpful, easy, and free. Through our user-friendly tools and intuitive platforms, we empower our members to take control of their finances and work towards their goals. Whether it's starting a savings account, purchasing a first car or home, launching a business, or pursuing higher education, we're proud to have helped millions unlock their financial potential.
We're a team of problem solvers, dreamers, and builders with one shared obsession: our members. From day one, Chimers have worked tirelessly to out-hustle and out-execute competitors to bring our mission to life. Their grit and determination inspire us to work harder every day to deliver the very best experience possible. We each bring an owner's mindset to our work, refusing to be outdone and holding ourselves accountable to meet and exceed the highest bars for our teams, our company, and our members.
We believe in being bold, dreaming big, and taking risks, while also working together, embracing our diverse perspectives, and giving each other honest feedback. Our culture remains deeply entrepreneurial, encouraging every Chimer to see themselves as stewards of our mission to help everyday Americans unlock their financial progress.
We know that to achieve our mission, we must earn and keep people's trust—so we hold ourselves to the highest standards of integrity in everything we do. These aren't just words on a wall—our values are embedded in every aspect of our business, serving as a north star that guides us as we work to help millions achieve their financial potential.
Because if we don't—who will?
*Chime is a financial technology company, not a bank. Banking services provided by The Bancorp Bank, N.A. or Stride Bank, N.A., Members FDIC.
What we offer for our full-time, regular employees
- 🏢 Our in-office work policy is designed to keep you connected - with four days a week in the office and Fridays from home for those near one of our offices, plus team and company-wide events depending on location. Whether you’re coming in regularly or are part of our fully remote program, you’ll stay engaged with your work and teammates.
- 💻 Benefits that support your work and life, including backup child, elder, and pet care and subsidized commuter benefits for eligible employees.
- ✨ Comprehensive health, financial, and wellbeing benefits designed to support you at every stage of life.
- 🏝 Generous vacation policy and company-wide paid days off
- 🫂 1% of your time off to support local community organizations of your choice
- 👟 Annual wellness stipend to use towards eligible wellness related expenses
- 👶 Up to 22 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing parents and 12 weeks of paid parental leave for non-birthing parents
- 👪 Access to family planning reimbursement
- 💚 A challenging and fulfilling opportunity to join one of the most experienced teams in FinTech and help millions unlock financial progress
We know that great work can’t be done without a diverse team and inclusive environment. That’s why we specifically look for individuals of varying strengths, skills, backgrounds, and ideas to join our team. We believe this gives us a competitive advantage to better serve our members and helps us all grow as Chimers and individuals.
Chime is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital or family status, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis under provincial, federal, state, and local laws, regulations, or ordinances. We will also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of state and local laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Cook County Ordinance, NYC Fair Chance Act, and the LA City Fair Chance Ordinance, and consistent with Canadian provincial and federal laws. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation during any stage of the application process, please contact: benefits@chime.com.
To learn more about how Chime collects and uses your personal information during the application process, please see the Chime Applicant Privacy Notice.
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