Engineering Manager Data Platform

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 $199000 and up to $275000. 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.

• 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.

• 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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What We Do

Chime was created because we believe everyone can Unlock Financial Progress and we want to develop solutions and services to empower people to succeed. The premise upon which we started Chime is simple: basic banking services should be helpful transparent and easy. Our suite of tools and platforms give our members the ability to have more control over their money and to take action toward achieving their financial ambitions. By designing a member-centric banking app with easy-to-understand financial tools we’re creating a more competitive market with options for everyday Americans. We offer access to accounts with no overdraft fees providing members the chance to receive their pay up to 2 days early* with direct deposit build credit history and develop financial literacy to hit their goals—among many other things. Since 2012 we’ve grown our team to more than 1500 Chimers across 3 offices. But more than that we’ve expanded the products and services we offer to our members based on their feedback. And in doing so we’ve disrupted the banking industry and changed the conversation for everyday people about money on a national level. Chime is a financial technology company not a bank. Banking services are provided by The Bancorp Bank N.A. or Stride Bank N.A. Members FDIC. *Early access to direct deposit funds depends on the timing of the submission of the payment file from the payer. We generally make these funds available on the day the payment file is received which may be up to 2 days earlier than the scheduled payment date.

Why Work With Us

We’ve crafted a culture that’s grounded in our core values and always focused on our members. We’re civic-minded innovators who take action to bring people together to accelerate equity and prosperity. We embrace our humanity treat each other with respect and kindness and are driven to make an impact on our members and communities far and wide.

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