Chime Financial, Inc

Chime Financial, Inc

Engineering Manager, Data Platform

San Francisco, CA, USA · Full-time

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 21 days ago
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About the role

  • Your leadership will directly impact how Chime stores, governs, and serves data - enabling trusted, self-serve, AI-ready data for Chimers across the company.
  • The base salary offered for this role and level of experience will begin at $199,000 and up to $275,000.
  • The actual base salary offered may be higher, depending on your location, skills, qualifications, and experience.

Responsibilities

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Have a track record of scaling products, platforms, and operations to support rapid growth in data volume, complexity, and criticality.
  • Have proven expertise in system and data architecture for scalable, secure, and cost-efficient data platforms, including schema design, data modeling, and partitioning strategies.
  • 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.

Requirements

  • 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.
  • To thrive in this role, you have

Compensation

  • The base salary offered for this role and level of experience will begin at $199,000 and up to $275,000.
  • The actual base salary offered may be higher, depending on your location, skills, qualifications, and experience.

Benefits

  • Full-time employees are also eligible for a bonus, competitive equity package, and benefits.
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