Engineering Manager, Data Platform

About this role

<h2><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>About the Role</strong></span></h2> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">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.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">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.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">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.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">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.</span></p> <h2><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>In this role, you can expect to</strong></span></h2> <ul> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Own the strategy and roadmap for Chime’s Data Storage Platform, including Snowflake, data lake and online data stores for low-latency access.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Design and evolve scalable, high-performance storage architecture that balance reliability, cost, and ease of use for both analytical and in-product workloads.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">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.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Collaborate across Data Platform and partner teams to define clear data contracts, schemas, and SLAs between producers, storage, and consumers.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">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.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Manage and grow a team of engineers, setting clear expectations, providing coaching and feedback, and raising the bar on engineering quality and operational excellence.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Establish strong operational practices, including on-call, incident management, postmortems, and SLOs for the storage and serving layers your team owns.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">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.</span></li> </ul> <h2><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>To thrive in this role, you have</strong></span></h2> <ul> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Have 8+ years of experience in high-scale, high-reliability software development, with a focus on platforms, infrastructure, and data storage systems.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Have 3+ years of experience managing engineering teams, including hiring, performance management, and developing engineers.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Have a track record of scaling products, platforms, and operations to support rapid growth in data volume, complexity, and criticality.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial,…