Braze
Staff Software Engineer, User Targeting
Toronto · Staff+
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 20 days ago
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About the role
- We're a genuinely approachable, exceptionally kind, and intensely passionate crew.
- There is always a way to contribute: Acting with autonomy, having accountability and being open to new perspectives are essential to our continued success.
- 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.
Responsibilities
- You will have a say in what the team builds as well as how it gets built.
- Architect & Build: conceive, design, and implement large-scale systems and services that handle massive data volumes and complex workloads in real time. This includes extending our ClickHouse pipeline to support new filters and attributes
- Own Core Systems: take ownership of the complex backend systems behind Braze segmentation, continuously improving their performance, reliability, and cost-effectiveness
- Mentor & Influence: lead by example and mentor engineers on best practices in software design, coding, and operations
- Collaborate Cross-Functionally: work closely with other engineering teams, product managers, and stakeholders to ensure segmentation systems are effectively integrated and aligned with business objectives
- Innovate & Optimize: continuously identify opportunities to improve our systems, research new technologies, and advocate for their adoption where appropriate
- Maintain & Evolve: support and refine operational procedures (alerts, on-call rotation, troubleshooting playbooks) to maximize system stability and quality
- The team extensively integrates AI into its daily workflow, leveraging agentic tools to navigate our large Ruby monolith, create proof of concepts, and transition quickly and safely from an ask to a working solution.
- AI has been used across all stages of product delivery, fundamentally enhancing the team's ability to deliver high-quality results more efficiently.
- Systems at Scale: proven track record of building foundational data-driven systems at scale: whether streaming, real-time pipelines, or large-scale data platforms
Requirements
- Extensive Software Engineering experience: 7+ years of professional experience, including hands-on work in full-stack development or back-end services, particularly with high-scale, high-throughput systems
- Product Ownership at Scale: proven track record of delivering customer-facing products on high-scale data systems, from problem definition through launch and adoption.
- Database Experience: previous experience with MongoDB, ClickHouse, Snowflake, or other data lake solutions
- Cloud Technologies: experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes), and cloud services (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Architecture: experience with distributed systems, API design, monitoring, and best practices
Nice to have
- 7+ years of professional experience, including hands-on work in full-stack development or back-end services, particularly with high-scale, high-throughput systems
- Product Ownership at Scale:
- proven track record of delivering customer-facing products on high-scale data systems, from problem definition through launch and adoption.
- Systems at Scale:
- Technical Leadership:
- skilled at driving architectural direction, scoping large efforts, and effectively managing technical debt.
- Strong Fundamentals:
- great communication and organizational skills, with a history of thriving in team environments
Skills
- experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes), and cloud services (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Passionate about customer experience
- Braze offers benefits such as:
- 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
- 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
- Collaborative, transparent, and fun culture recognized as a Great Place to Work®
Compensation
- Opportunities to give back to your community, including an annual company-wide Volunteer Week and donation matching
Benefits
- More details on benefits plans will be provided if you receive an offer of employment.
- Braze benefits vary by location, and we encourage you to review our specific benefits offerings for each country at here.
- From offering comprehensive benefits to fostering hybrid ways of working, we've got you covered so you can prioritize work-life harmony.
Company info
- 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.
- The team is responsible for how our customers segment and target their users.
- We are a fast-paced team working close to customers in a core and high-impact area of our product.
- We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the User Targeting team as a hands-on technical leader.
- You will create and own complex systems end to end, from the segmentation engine and data pipelines through the APIs and the dashboard experience customers use every day, at the scale demanded by some of the biggest brands in the world.
- Architecture, performance, and cost are constant considerations, but your success will be measured by the value you unlock for customers.
- Own the Product: partner with product to define what gets built and why, then keep improving it after launch as you learn how customers actually use it
- partner with product to define what gets built and why, then keep improving it after launch as you learn how customers actually use it
- At Braze, we're committed to a fair and transparent candidate experience.
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