Braze

Senior Staff Engineer

Braze
Apply
4 hours ago

Base Salary

$208k - $350k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Drive technical vision, architectural direction, engineering best practices, and quality improvements across the Channels division.
  • Lead large, ambiguous, multi-team projects from problem framing and design through implementation, rollout, and operational support.
  • Help teams evolve channel foundations and frameworks to support sophisticated marketing use cases.
  • Mentor engineers through coaching, code reviews, architecture reviews, and pairing.
  • Improve observability, error handling, incremental rollouts, reliability, and incident reduction across dashboard and delivery systems.
  • Design and build foundational systems, frameworks, platforms, and developer tooling hands-on.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience, including meaningful technical leadership across multiple teams or complex product systems.
  • Experience with Ruby on Rails and proficiency in modern frontend development using TypeScript and React.
  • Experience designing and shipping foundational infrastructure, frameworks, libraries, or platform services used by other engineers.
  • Strong architectural judgment and the ability to make technical decisions for a maturing product suite.
  • Strong communication, mentoring, consensus-building, and ability to drive high-ambiguity projects with minimal direction.
  • Preferred experience with shared component libraries or design-system primitives, real-time or event-driven messaging systems, developer-experience tooling, code generation, scaffolding, or CI/CD for large codebases.
  • Preferred experience scaling products from early stage to enterprise scale while maintaining developer velocity.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model with a curated in-office employee experience.
  • Competitive compensation that may include equity, along with retirement and employee stock purchase plans.
  • Flexible paid time off and comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits.
  • Family services including fertility benefits and equal paid parental leave.
  • Professional development through career pathing, learning platforms, and a yearly learning stipend.
  • Volunteer Week, donation matching, Employee Resource Groups, and a collaborative culture recognized as a Great Place to Work.

Tech Stack

MongoDBReactRubyRuby on RailsTypeScript
Braze

About Braze

1,001-5,000 employees

Braze is the leading customer engagement platform that empowers brands to Be Absolutely Engaging.™ Braze allows any marketer to collect and take action on any amount of data from any source, so they can creatively engage with customers in real time, across channels from one platform. From cross-channel messaging and journey orchestration to Al-powered experimentation and optimization, Braze enables companies to build and maintain absolutely engaging relationships with their customers that foster growth and loyalty. The company has been recognized as a 2024 U.S. News & World Report Best Companies to Work For, 2024 Best Small & Medium Workplaces in Europe by Great Place to Work®, 2024 Fortune Best Workplaces for Women™ by Great Place to Work® and was named a Leader by Gartner® in the 2024 Magic Quadrant™ for Multichannel Marketing Hubs and a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave™: Email Marketing Service Providers, Q3 2024. Braze is headquartered in New York with 15 offices across AMER, LATAM, EMEA, and APAC. Learn more at braze.com.