Braze
Senior Platform Software Engineer II
New York City · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 5 days ago
RubyRailsFull-Stack DevelopmentMongoDBRedisKubernetesKafkaAgentic AIRecruiting
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
- Platform Software Engineers (PSWEs) are responsible for building, maintaining, and evolving our internal infrastructure as a service platform.
- It empowers Braze's other engineering teams to leverage the infrastructure products and platforms we create easily.
- 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.
- Partner with Braze's engineering teams on:
- Defining and implementing IaaS productions that will 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
- 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
- Develop Braze's internal Infrastructure as a Service platform (IaaS):
Requirements
- 5+ years of full-stack development experience
- When you see something broken, you can't help but fix it
Skills
- Make monitoring and alerting alerts on symptoms and not on outages
- Improve observability, debuggability, and operational ergonomics for large-scale job-processing systems
- Provide centralized/common tooling, services, and automation frameworks that are critical for scaling operations, capacity management
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 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
- Braze benefits vary by location, and we encourage you to review our specific benefits offerings for each country 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
- 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 Braze sounds like a place where you can thrive, we can't wait to meet you.
- Platform engineers are software engineers who apply sound engineering principles, operational discipline, and mature automation to the environments and infrastructure services we provide.
- Braze operates at a massive scale with over 8.5 billion monthly active users across our customers, collecting hundreds of billions of data points each month and sending billions of messages to end-users daily.
- Ensure that Braze meets our strict enterprise-grade SLAs with customers
- Delivering fast to delight our customers- even internal ones
Equal opportunity
- BRAZE IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER At Braze, we strive to create equitable growth and opportunities inside and outside the organization.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Depending on where you are located, you may have the right to request further information about how AI is used in our recruitment process, to opt out of AI-assisted review, to request a manual review of any decision made or to contest a dec
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