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Data Governance Engineer
Role at a glance
- Category
- Data Governance
- Work arrangement
- On-site
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
- Salary range
- $160,000
- Posted
- Jun 13, 2026
Chime is hiring a Data Governance Engineer in San Francisco, CA. This is a Data Governance role in the governance, risk, and compliance field, with a posted range of $160,000. Review the full details below and apply directly with Chime.
About the Role The Data Governance function is pivotal in ensuring the integrity, trustworthiness, and effective management of Chime’s data assets. Our mission is to establish and operationalize data governance frameworks that not only meet compliance requirements, but actively enable high-confidence decision making across the company. As a Data Governance Engineer, you will develop and implement policies and tools for data quality, developer enablement, certified datasets, and governance automation - with a sharp focus on building trust signals and scorecards that help data consumers quickly understand and act on the reliability of Chime s data. This is a hands-on engineering role. You will write production-quality code to build automation for governance and data quality processes using Terraform, Python (or similar languages), and contribute to internal libraries, frameworks, and orchestration workflows that enable scalable governance. You will partner closely with data engineering, analytics, product engineering, and compliance teams to: Support Chime in strong data compliance and risk reduction initiatives Establish strong data quality as a product discipline Build strong trust signals and scorecards that make data reliability transparent and data context valuable for a variety of use cases Implement strong governance workflows upstream, where data are created Ensure strong data context and metadata are sufficient for downstream use cases, including AI applications You will be involved in reviews of technical designs and implementation plans to provide guidance on appropriate development from a data governance and compliance perspective, acting as a trusted advisor to teams innovating at Chime. You will also be a strong advocate and leader for Artificial Intelligence tooling and adoption at Chime, bringing curiosity and a practical eye for where AI creates leverage in data governance workflows. This role is strong 40% strategic influence, strong 40% development and building, and strong 20% stakeholder management and support. The base salary for this role and level of experience will begin at $160,000.00 and go up to $221,000.00. 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 Build Data Trust Infrastructure: Design and implement trust scorecards, trust signals,
Full responsibilities and requirements are on Chime's application page.
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This role is based in San Francisco, CA on-site. Local candidates benefit from being close to Chime's teams and regional hiring market. Confirm the exact in-office expectation and any relocation support with the employer.
About data governance roles
Data governance establishes ownership, quality, and controls over data as an asset. It is foundational to trustworthy analytics and AI, spanning cataloging, lineage, and access. Roles like this one are typically evaluated against frameworks such as data management frameworks, data quality and lineage standards, and privacy and security controls.
How to position yourself for this data governance role
Strong candidates emphasize data ownership and stewardship, quality and lineage, catalog and access controls, and enabling analytics and AI on a trusted data foundation. In your resume and outreach, tie your experience to how Chime would apply data management frameworks, data quality and lineage standards, and privacy and security controls, and lead with concrete outcomes rather than duties.
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