Description
Why Join Us
Brex is the intelligent finance platform that enables companies to spend smarter and move faster in more than 200 markets. By combining global corporate cards and banking with intuitive spend management, bill pay, and travel software, Brex enables founders and finance teams to accelerate operations, gain real-time visibility, and control spend effortlessly.
Working at Brex
Working at Brex allows you to push your limits, challenge the status quo, and collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the industry. We’re committed to building a diverse team and inclusive culture and believe your potential should only be limited by how big you can dream.
Engineering at Brex
Engineering at Brex is about building systems that scale with speed and intention. Our teams span Software, Data, Security, and IT, and operate with high autonomy and deep collaboration.
What You’ll Do
As the Engineering Manager for Cloud Infrastructure, you will lead a highly competent team of senior engineers responsible for the foundational AWS ecosystem that powers Brex. Your primary near-term mission will be driving our high-priority Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) initiative to completion, a company-level priority that involves multi-region failover and infrastructure-wide resilience.
Responsibilities
- Lead and grow a senior team of 6 ICs, fostering a culture of high ownership, autonomy, and technical excellence.
- Drive the BCDR strategy, overseeing the execution of the multi-year BCDR initiative, ensuring multi-region infrastructure readiness and automated failover capabilities.
- Maintain and scale Brex’s core cloud infrastructure, including Kubernetes (EKS), RDS/Aurora/Postgres, networking (VPC), and AWS service integrations.
- Partner with product and engineering teams across Brex to drive adoption of new infrastructure capabilities and ensure successful migrations.
- Improve team hygiene by establishing and improving best practices for work tracking, documentation, and incident response.
- Effectively allocate resources to balance critical project delivery with long-term infrastructure stability.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience directly managing software or infrastructure engineering teams.
- Deep hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure foundations, specifically AWS, Kubernetes, and Postgres.
- Proven ability to design and implement complex infrastructure projects such as multi-region deployments or disaster recovery frameworks.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to influence technical decisions across multiple autonomous teams.
- Ability to dive deep into technical issues while maintaining a high-level strategic view of organizational goals.
- 5+ years of experience in software or systems engineering.
Bonus Points
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools, specifically Terraform.
- Background in managing cloud infrastructure cost optimization programs.
- Experience with our tech stack components: Go, Kotlin, Python, or Elixir.
- Passion for leveraging AI and LLM-assisted workflows to increase engineering velocity.
Compensation
The expected salary range for this role is $240,000 - $300,000.