6 hours ago
Base Salary
$184k - $314k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect and build large-scale systems and services handling massive data volumes and complex real-time workloads.
- Extend the ClickHouse pipeline to support new filters and attributes.
- Own customer-facing product development from problem definition through launch and continued improvement.
- Improve the performance, reliability, and cost-effectiveness of core segmentation backend systems.
- Drive architectural direction, scope major technical initiatives, manage technical debt, and mentor engineers.
- Collaborate with product managers, engineering teams, and stakeholders to align segmentation systems with business objectives.
- Maintain alerts, on-call procedures, troubleshooting playbooks, and other operational practices.
- Research and advocate for technologies that improve system quality and delivery efficiency.
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including hands-on full-stack or backend development with high-scale, high-throughput systems.
- Proven experience delivering customer-facing products on high-scale data systems from problem definition through launch and adoption.
- Experience building foundational data-driven systems such as streaming systems, real-time pipelines, or large-scale data platforms.
- Strong technical leadership skills, including architectural direction, large-effort scoping, technical-debt management, and communication of complex concepts.
- Deep understanding of software design, data structures, and algorithms.
- Strong communication and organizational skills and the ability to thrive in collaborative team environments.
- Preferred experience 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 and AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Preferred experience with distributed systems, API design, monitoring, and software engineering best practices.
Benefits
- Annual compensation includes a base pay range of $184,000 to $314,079 for U.S.-based candidates, with equity and other rewards also offered.
- Retirement and Employee Stock Purchase Plans are available.
- Benefits include flexible paid time off and medical, dental, vision, life, and disability coverage.
- Family services include fertility benefits and equal paid parental leave.
- Professional development includes career pathing, learning platforms, and a yearly learning stipend.
- The role supports hybrid ways of working and a curated in-office employee experience.
- Employees can participate in Volunteer Week, donation matching, and Employee Resource Groups.
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.