Senior Platform Software Engineer - Braze
San Francisco, CA
About the Job
At Braze, we have found our people. We’re a genuinely approachable, exceptionally kind, and intensely passionate crew.
We seek to ignite that passion by setting high standards, championing teamwork, and creating work-life harmony as we collectively navigate rapid growth on a global scale while striving for greater equity and opportunity – inside and outside our organization.
To flourish here, you must be prepared to set a high bar for yourself and those around you. There is always a way to contribute: Acting with autonomy, having accountability and being open to new perspectives are essential to our continued success. Our deep curiosity to learn and our eagerness to share diverse passions with others gives us balance and injects a one-of-a-kind vibrancy into our culture.
If you are driven to solve exhilarating challenges and have a bias toward action in the face of change, you will be empowered to make a real impact here, with a sharp and passionate team at your back. If Braze sounds like a place where you can thrive, we can’t wait to meet you.
Platform Software Engineers (PSWEs) are responsible for building, maintaining, and evolving our internal infrastructure as a service platform. Platform engineers are software engineers who apply sound engineering principles, operational discipline, and mature automation to the environments and infrastructure services we provide. We specialize in moving expertise in deploying and operating infrastructure from people to software –whether it be database provisioning and upgrades, Kafka topic management, or some more specific interest in high-scale data or distributed systems.
Our team helps to improve automation infrastructure reliability. It empowers Braze’s other engineering teams to leverage the infrastructure products and platforms we create easily. Braze operates at a massive scale with over 3.3 billion monthly active users across our customers, collecting hundreds of billions of data points each month and sending billions of messages to end-users daily. We use a diverse technology stack rooted in Ruby on Rails, MongoDB, Redis, Kafka, Kubernetes, and more. As a Platform Software Engineer at Braze, you will collaborate with your team and consumer engineering teams to build and continuously improve the infrastructure as a service platform that every other team at Braze depends on.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Partner with Braze’s engineering teams on:
- Defining and implementing IaaS productions that will help them build and deploy quicker
- Make monitoring and alerting alerts on symptoms and not on outages
- Ensure that Braze meets our strict enterprise-grade SLAs with customers
- Develop Braze’s internal Infrastructure as a Service platform (IaaS):
- Develop, implement, and maintain the software services that provide custom infrastructure services
- Provide centralized/common tooling, services, and automation frameworks that are critical for scaling operations, capacity management
- Reduce operational pain and improve the day-to-day workflow of Braze’s engineering teams by building automation into our IaaS platform
- Manage incidents:
- Be on a PagerDuty rotation to respond to availability incidents and provide support for other engineers
- Use your on-call shift to prevent incidents from ever happening
- Retrospect everything that happens to turn lessons into system improvements/changes, automation, etc.
WHO YOU ARE
- 5+ years of full-stack development experience
- You think about systems - interfaces, boundaries, edge cases, failure modes, behaviors, and specific implementations
- Have an urge to collaborate, document, and deliver quickly
- Collaborating across the global remote teams, often working asynchronously
- Document everything so you don't need to learn the same thing (or plan the same work) twice
- Delivering fast to delight our customers–even internal ones
- Have an enthusiastic, go-for-it attitude. When you see something broken, you can't help but fix it
- Have a desire to solve everyday challenges facing software engineers and automate their toil away
- Have an excellent ability to manage multiple tasks and expectations at once
- Experienced in working on large-scale API-driven system
- Experienced in application and systems observability
- Experience in building/automating Kubernetes-based operators/custom resources
For candidates based in the United States, the pay range for this position at the start of employment is expected to be between $160,000 and $200,000/year with an expected On Target Earnings (OTE) between $180,000 and $215,000/year (including bonus or commission). Your exact offer may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. In addition to cash compensation, Braze offers full- and part- time employees a comprehensive Total Rewards package that includes equity grants of restricted stock (RSUs) so that all Braze employees own a piece of our company.
WHAT WE OFFER
Details of these benefits plan will be provided if a candidate receives an offer of employment. Benefits may vary by location.
From offering comprehensive benefits to fostering flexible environments, we’ve got you covered so you can prioritize work-life harmony.
- Competitive compensation that may include equity
- Retirement and Employee Stock Purchase Plans
- Flexible paid time off
- Comprehensive benefit plans covering medical, dental, vision, life, and disability
- Family services that include fertility benefits and equal paid parental leave
- Professional development supported by formal career pathing, learning platforms, and tuition reimbursement
- Community engagement opportunities throughout the year, including an annual company wide Volunteer Week
- Employee Resource Groups that provide supportive communities within Braze
- Collaborative, transparent, and fun culture recognized as a Great Place to Work®
ABOUT BRAZE
Braze is a leading customer engagement platform that powers lasting connections between consumers and brands they love. 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.
Braze is proudly certified as a Great Place to Work® in the U.S., the UK and Singapore. We ranked #3 on Great Place to Work UK’s 2024 Best Workplaces (Large), #3 on Great Place to Work UK’s 2023 Best Workplaces for Wellbeing (Medium), #4 on Great Place to Work’s 2023 Best Workplaces in Europe (Medium), #10 on Great Place to Work UK’s 2023 Best Workplaces for Women (Large), #19 on Fortune’s 2023 Best Workplaces in New York (Large). We were also featured in Built In's 2024 Best Places to Work, U.S. News Best Technology Companies to Work For, and Great Place to Work UK’s 2023 Best Workplaces in Tech.
You’ll find many of us at headquarters in New York City or around the world in Austin, Berlin, Chicago, Jakarta, London, Paris, San Francisco, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo – not to mention our employees in nearly 50 remote locations.
BRAZE IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
At Braze, we strive to create equitable growth and opportunities inside and outside the organization.
Building meaningful connections is at the heart of everything we do, and that includes our recruiting practices. We're committed to offering all candidates a fair, accessible, and inclusive experience – regardless of age, color, disability, gender identity, marital status, maternity, national origin, pregnancy, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or status as a protected veteran. When applying and interviewing with Braze, we want you to feel comfortable showcasing what makes you you.
We know that sometimes different circumstances can lead talented people to hesitate to apply for a role unless they meet 100% of the criteria. If this sounds familiar, we encourage you to apply, as we’d love to meet you.
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