Responsibilities
- Architect and build large-scale systems and services handling massive data volumes and complex real-time workloads.
- Extend the high-scale ingestion pipeline to support new and advanced data objects.
- Partner with product teams to define, launch, and continuously improve customer-facing capabilities.
- Own and improve backend systems for core data objects, with emphasis on performance, reliability, and cost-effectiveness.
- Drive architectural direction, scope large technical efforts, manage technical debt, and lead major initiatives.
- Mentor engineers on software design, coding, and operations best practices.
- Collaborate with engineering teams, product managers, and stakeholders to integrate core data systems with business objectives.
- Research technologies and advocate for appropriate improvements.
- 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 delivery of customer-facing products on high-scale data systems from problem definition through launch and adoption.
- Experience building foundational data-driven systems at scale, including streaming, real-time pipelines, or large-scale data platforms.
- Strong technical leadership skills in architectural direction, large-effort scoping, technical debt management, and driving major initiatives.
- Deep understanding of software design, data structures, and algorithms.
- Strong communication, organizational, and teamwork skills.
- Familiarity with Ruby, Ruby on Rails, React, Go, and SQL/NoSQL databases is preferred.
- Experience with MongoDB, Snowflake, or other data lake solutions is preferred.
- Experience with Kubernetes and AWS, GCP, or Azure is preferred.
- Experience with distributed systems, API design, monitoring, and related engineering best practices is preferred.
Benefits
- Compensation may include equity, along with retirement and Employee Stock Purchase Plans.
- Flexible paid time off and comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits are offered.
- Family services include fertility benefits and equal paid parental leave.
- Professional development includes formal career pathing, learning platforms, and a yearly learning stipend.
- The role supports hybrid ways of working and includes a curated in-office employee experience.
- Employees can participate in Volunteer Week, donation matching, and Employee Resource Groups.
- Benefits vary by location and additional plan details are provided during the offer process.
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About Braze
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.