Senior Staff Platform Infrastructure Engineer

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EngineeringDevOps & InfrastructureDevops Engineer

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Key Responsibilities

3.3 billion monthly active users, hundreds of billions of data points collected each month, and billions of messages sent daily. Our tech stack is rooted in Ruby on Rails, Go, MongoDB, Redis,

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EngineeringDevOps & InfrastructureDevops Engineer

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.

Responsibilities

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We’re looking for a Senior Staff engineer to help lead our Infrastructure division. We own the infrastructure that supports massive scale-processing more than a trillion jobs daily. Our work spans autoscaling systems, metrics pipelines, reliable job execution, and internal frameworks that make distributed processing safe for application teams.

Braze operates at a massive scale: 3.3 billion monthly active users, hundreds of billions of data points collected each month, and billions of messages sent daily. Our tech stack is rooted in Ruby on Rails, Go, MongoDB, Redis, and Kafka. As a PSWE, you'll collaborate with application teams to evolve the Sidekiq platform they depend on and improve the reliability, performance, and developer experience.

Main responsibilities:

→Leadership in our Infrastructure division and broader engineering team
→Design, build, and operate the architecture that power Braze’s systems at massive scale
→Long term planning and execution. Definition critical visions for our systems, gaining buy-in, and delivering
→Cross-organization partnership. Working with engineering teams to leverage our infrastructure and launch products to massive scale
→Own the quality of our architecture decisions. Partner on design of systems across multiple teams and own the outcomes
→Work at the intersection of process, technology, and people
→Own and deliver solutions that are satisfy compliance requirements

10+ years of high scaled distributed systems development or platform/infrastructure experience
You think about systems - interfaces, boundaries, edge cases, failure modes, behaviors, and specific implementations
You are a technical practitioner but a people leader - you can scale your leverage through process, collaboration, and software
You have experience leading infrastructure or infrastructure-adjacent teams (either as a tech lead, or a manager) in a high scale system

For candidates based in the United States, the pay range for this position at the start of employment is expected to be between $208,000 and $349,655/year with an expected On Target Earnings (OTE) between $232,000 and $390,000/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.

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