# Senior Platform Software Engineer II

**Company**: Braze
**Location**: New York City
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $156,364 - $250,909/year
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

At Braze, we're a customer engagement platform that empowers brands to deliver great customer experiences. We're seeking a Senior Platform Software Engineer II to join our Engineering team in New York City.

**Job Summary:** 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. You will be responsible for building, maintaining, and evolving our internal infrastructure as a service platform.

**Responsibilities:**

- Partner with Braze's engineering teams to define and implement IaaS productions that help them build and deploy quicker

- Develop Braze's embedded frameworks that enable large-scale distributed processings

- Design, build, and operate internal software frameworks that power Braze's asynchronous and background processing systems at massive scale

- Evolve and extend frameworks built on technologies such as Sidekiq to reliably execute trillions of jobs per day across a globally distributed platform

- Own scaling behavior, reliability guarantees, failure modes, and operational safety of these systems

- Provide opinionated abstractions, tooling, and guardrails that allow application teams to use distributed processing safely without needing to manage underlying complexity

- Improve observability, debuggability, and operational ergonomics for large-scale job-processing systems

- Develop Braze's internal Infrastructure as a Service platform (IaaS)

- Manage incidents and be on a PagerDuty rotation to respond to availability incidents and provide support for other engineers

**Requirements:**

- 5+ years of full-stack development experience

- Experience working on large-scale API-driven systems

- Experience in application and systems observability

- Experience building/automating Kubernetes-based operators/custom resources

- Excellent ability to manage multiple tasks and expectations at once

- Desire to solve everyday challenges facing software engineers and automate their toil away

**What We Offer:**

- 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 a yearly learning stipend

- A curated in-office employee experience, designed to foster community, team connections, and innovation

- Opportunities to give back to your community, including an annual company-wide Volunteer Week and donation matching

- Employee Resource Groups that provide supportive communities within Braze

**Salary Range:** For candidates based in the United States, the pay range for this position at the start of employment is expected to be between $156,364 and $250,909/year with an expected On Target Earnings (OTE) between $172,000 and $276,000/year (including bonus or commission).

## Skills

### Required
- Ruby on Rails
- MongoDB
- Redis
- Kafka
- Kubernetes
- Sidekiq

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