6 hours ago
Base Salary
$184k - $314k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect and build large-scale real-time systems and services handling massive data volumes and complex workloads.
- Extend the ClickHouse pipeline to support new filters and attributes.
- Partner with product teams to define, launch, and improve customer-facing segmentation capabilities.
- Own and optimize the performance, reliability, and cost-effectiveness of core backend systems.
- Drive architectural direction, scope major technical efforts, and manage technical debt.
- Mentor engineers on software design, coding, and operations best practices.
- Collaborate with engineering teams, product managers, and stakeholders to integrate segmentation systems.
- Research and advocate for appropriate new technologies.
- Maintain alerts, on-call procedures, troubleshooting playbooks, and other operational practices.
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including hands-on full-stack development or backend services for high-scale, high-throughput systems.
- Demonstrated experience delivering customer-facing products on high-scale data systems from problem definition through launch and adoption.
- Experience building foundational data-driven systems, including streaming, real-time pipelines, or large-scale data platforms.
- Ability to drive architectural direction, scope large efforts, manage technical debt, and lead major technical initiatives.
- Deep understanding of software design, data structures, and algorithms.
- Strong communication and organizational skills and the ability to thrive in collaborative teams.
- Preferred familiarity with Ruby, Ruby on Rails, TypeScript, React, Sidekiq, and SQL or NoSQL databases.
- Preferred experience with MongoDB, ClickHouse, Snowflake, or other data lake solutions.
- Preferred experience with Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Preferred experience with distributed systems, API design, monitoring, and related architecture practices.
Benefits
- Hybrid ways of working with a curated in-office employee experience.
- Equity grants of restricted stock and employee stock purchase plans.
- Flexible paid time off and comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits.
- Fertility benefits and equal paid parental leave.
- Professional development, formal career pathing, learning platforms, and a yearly learning stipend.
- Volunteer Week, donation matching, and Employee Resource Groups.
- Collaborative culture recognized as a Great Place to Work®.
Tech Stack
AWSAzureClickHouseGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesMongoDBReactRubyRuby on RailsSnowflakeSQLTypeScript
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About Braze
Braze builds a customer engagement platform used by marketing teams to orchestrate cross-channel messaging across mobile, email, web, and more. The company sells its software via SaaS subscriptions with analytics, segmentation, and journey orchestration. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York, Braze is a public company (NASDAQ: BRZE) with global offices.