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).