Braze

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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