# Senior Software Engineer, Release Infra

**Company**: Brex
**Location**: Seattle, Washington
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $192,000 - $240,000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

Brex is the intelligent finance platform that enables companies to spend smarter and move faster in more than 200 markets.

As a Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure (Release Engineering) at Brex, you will design, build, and operate the core systems that power Brex's release, observability, and incident management processes.

Responsibilities:

- Design, build, and maintain the release infrastructure that powers Brex's deployment pipelines and incident workflows

- Drive technical strategy and architecture for release and observability systems, making them more scalable, reliable, and secure

- Collaborate with product, engineering, and operations partners to ensure Brex's releases are safe, predictable, and low-friction

- Identify and deliver improvements to the end-to-end release process (from code merge to production) to reduce risk and cycle time

- Build and evolve tooling for observability and incident response, enabling fast detection, triage, and resolution

- Proactively identify and mitigate risks in our release and infrastructure stack, including performance, reliability, and security concerns

- Define, instrument, and monitor key metrics for release engineering (e.g., deployment frequency, change failure rate, MTTR) and use them to guide improvements

- Partner with other infrastructure and product teams to debug complex production issues and drive long-term fixes

- Contribute to and champion best practices in release engineering, reliability, and operational excellence across the organization

- Mentor other engineers on the team, providing technical guidance and code reviews to elevate the overall quality of our infrastructure

- Stay up-to-date on emerging tools and practices in release engineering, observability, and SRE, and bring relevant ideas into Brex's stack

Requirements:

- 7+ years of professional experience designing, building, and operating backend or infrastructure systems in production

- Strong proficiency in backend programming languages (e.g., Go, Java, Kotlin, or Python) with a focus on reliability and performance

- Hands-on experience with CI/CD and release pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Buildkite, Argo, Spinnaker, Jenkins) including build, test, and deployment automation

- Experience architecting and operating scalable, high-availability distributed systems on cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure)

- Deep familiarity with containerization and orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) and infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation)

- Experience designing and maintaining observability tooling (metrics, logs, tracing) and integrating it into incident response workflows

- Strong understanding of reliability and SRE practices, including SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, and incident management best practices

- Experience designing and optimizing data storage systems (SQL and/or NoSQL) for operational and observability use cases

- Proven track record of improving release processes (e.g., reducing deployment risk, increasing deployment frequency, automating rollbacks)

- Comfort working cross-functionally with product and other engineering teams to debug complex production issues and ship changes safely

- Strong communication and collaboration skills, including writing clear design docs and driving technical decisions across teams

## Skills

### Required
- Go
- Java
- Kotlin
- Python
- GitHub Actions
- CircleCI
- Buildkite
- Argo
- Spinnaker
- Jenkins
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- CloudFormation

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