2 hours ago
Base Salary
$156k - $280k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead integration projects from design through rollout and set technical direction for the Decisioning Studio integration platform.
- Build integrations with cloud data warehouses, customer engagement platforms, and enterprise systems for data ingestion and activation orchestration.
- Develop large-scale ingestion pipelines supporting batch pulls, file drops, APIs, streaming, arbitrary schemas, schema changes, and backfills.
- Build fault-tolerant, event-driven activation pipelines that deliver recommendations reliably and avoid duplicate sends.
- Design multi-region systems with data residency, PII handling, and compliance requirements.
- Own production systems, including Datadog instrumentation, on-call participation, incident response, and root-cause analysis.
- Collaborate with data scientists, ML engineers, and product managers to create reusable platform capabilities.
- Mentor engineers and improve code quality, testing, and design review practices.
Requirements
- 6+ years of backend engineering experience building and operating distributed systems in production.
- Demonstrated technical leadership through end-to-end project ownership, architecture decisions, and direction-setting for other engineers.
- Experience building high-volume data pipelines or integrations between systems, including schema changes, backfills, and partial failures.
- Strong understanding of event-driven architecture and reliability patterns, including message brokers, idempotency, retries with backoff, dead-letter handling, and at-least-once versus exactly-once tradeoffs.
- Proficiency in Python and SQL.
- Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure, preferably GCP, and Kubernetes.
- Experience with AI coding assistants and sound judgment about their use.
- Clear communication and effective collaboration with engineering, data science, and product teams.
- Preferred experience includes BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift, Braze, Adobe, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Klaviyo, multi-region systems, data residency and compliance, and production ML systems.
Benefits
- Base pay for U.S. candidates is listed at $156,364-$279,957 per year, with additional OTE and potential equity; compensation figures are excluded from benefit details.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits.
- Retirement and Employee Stock Purchase Plans.
- Flexible paid time off and equal paid parental leave with fertility and family services.
- Professional development, formal career pathing, learning platforms, and a yearly learning stipend.
- Hybrid work with a curated in-office employee experience.
- Employee Resource Groups, volunteer opportunities, donation matching, and a collaborative workplace culture.
Tech Stack
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.